ATKIN MACHINE TOOL MAINTENANCE LTD

💤Zombieactive
04445299 · ltd · incorporated 2002-05-22
Investment thesis
Zombie company — trading but stalled; unlikely mover.
Why interesting: Quiet, steady; could be a succession or carve-out candidate with the right conversation.
Why risky: No growth signal; thin margin for error on price.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to May 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
74/100
Strong
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 33190
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Strong opportunity: active trading company with strong profile and bankable structure.

Opportunity 74/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. High owner-dependency — earn-out structure likely required for clean transition. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Broaden director team. Sole director creates succession risk and reduces buyer comfort. Appoint a second director or strong #2. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (58/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (78/100)

Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.

Company profile
address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
7 officers (2 active, 7 linked, 3 with DOB)
79
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
68 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
74/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.

Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
55
Some acquirability indicators.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0May 2024May 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-05-312024-05-31
Average employees900600

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

2 signals detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (31 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-02-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-02-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-01-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-02-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-02-11
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  6. 2022-02-11
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    appoint-person-secretary-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP03
  7. 2022-02-11
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  8. 2022-02-11
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  9. 2022-02-11
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  10. 2022-02-11
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    termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM02
  11. 2022-02-11
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
  12. 2022-02-11
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  13. 2022-02-11
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  14. 2022-02-01
    ➕
    TURNER, Lee David appointed
    secretary
  15. 2022-02-01
    ➕
    TURNER, Lee David appointed
    director
  16. 2022-02-01
    ➖
    ATKIN, Christine Julie resigned
    secretary
  17. 2022-02-01
    ➖
    ATKIN, Christine Julie resigned
    director
  18. 2022-02-01
    ➖
    ATKIN, Michael James resigned
    director
  19. 2021-09-13
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  20. 2021-05-25
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    change-sail-address-company-with-old-address-new-address
    address · AD02
  21. 2021-05-11
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    move-registers-to-registered-office-company-with-new-address
    address · AD04
  22. 2021-04-28
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  23. 2020-12-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  24. 2002-08-05
    ➕
    ATKIN, Christine Julie appointed
    director
  25. 2002-05-22
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As ATKIN MACHINE TOOL MAINTENANCE LTD
  26. 2002-05-22
    ➕
    ATKIN, Christine Julie appointed
    secretary
  27. 2002-05-22
    ➕
    FORM 10 SECRETARIES FD LTD appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  28. 2002-05-22
    ➖
    FORM 10 SECRETARIES FD LTD resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  29. 2002-05-22
    ➕
    ATKIN, Michael James appointed
    director
  30. 2002-05-22
    ➕
    FORM 10 DIRECTORS FD LTD appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  31. 2002-05-22
    ➖
    FORM 10 DIRECTORS FD LTD resigned
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

75/100
High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS
  • +Sole director: Only one active director — all governance concentrated on one person.

Succession & seller-readiness

55/100
Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS
  • primarySole active director: Only one director in control. No visible successor — buyers solve the succession problem.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 24 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.

Red flags

clean
No red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)

Group structure

D.Turner & Son (Machinery Removal) Ltd is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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D.Turner & Son (Machinery Removal) Ltd
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control
ultimate parent
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ATKIN MACHINE TOOL MAINTENANCE LTD
This company · 04445299

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
D.Turner & Son (Machinery Removal) Ltd
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control01/02/2022
2 historic (ceased) PSCs
  • Mr Michael James Atkinceased 01/02/2022· 50-75% shares
  • Mrs Christine Julie Atkinceased 01/02/2022· 25-50% shares

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

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Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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🔒Tailored diligence questions

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Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2002-05-22
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC33190 — SIC 33190

Registered office

143a Green Lane
Heywood
OL10 2EW
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-02-28
Last made up to: 2025-05-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-12-10
Last: 2025-11-26

Officers (2 active · 5 resigned)

TURNER, Lee David→
secretary · appointed 2022-02-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
TURNER, Lee David→
director · ~50y · appointed 2022-02-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
ATKIN, Christine Julie→
secretary · appointed 2002-05-22 · resigned 2022-02-01
Resigned
FORM 10 SECRETARIES FD LTD→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2002-05-22 · resigned 2002-05-22
Resigned
ATKIN, Christine Julie→
director · ~67y · appointed 2002-08-05 · resigned 2022-02-01
Resigned
ATKIN, Michael James→
director · ~73y · appointed 2002-05-22 · resigned 2022-02-01
Resigned
FORM 10 DIRECTORS FD LTD→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2002-05-22 · resigned 2002-05-22
Resigned

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Recent filings (68 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-02-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-01-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-02-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-01-16
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-12-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-02-28
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-01-16
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2022-02-11
appoint-person-secretary-company-with-name-date
officers · AP03
2022-02-11
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2022-02-11
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2022-02-11
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2022-02-11
termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2022-02-11
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2022-02-11