ASHTON AIRCONDITIONING SERVICES LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
04470598 · ltd · incorporated 2002-06-26
Investment thesis
Established operating company — standard diligence applies, no dominant angle.
Why interesting: Live, filing, normal profile.
Why risky: No standout signals in either direction.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Oct 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 35300
Sector: Electricity, gas & energy
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 71-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 71). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (67/100)

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
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)
78
Ownership & PSC
No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)
35
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
64 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
80
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
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£0Oct 2024Oct 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · IFRS
Metric2025-10-312024-10-31
Average employees300300

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
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-01-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-01-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-01-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-02-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-01-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2021-01-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2020-02-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2019-03-03
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  9. 2019-02-08
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2018-04-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  11. 2018-04-18
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control-statement
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC08
  12. 2017-03-06
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  13. 2016-06-29
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    annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
    annual-return · AR01
  14. 2016-05-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  15. 2015-07-15
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    annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
    annual-return · AR01
  16. 2015-06-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  17. 2008-05-15
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    KIBBY, Andrew Darren appointed
    secretary
  18. 2008-05-15
    ➖
    PETERS, Michael John resigned
    secretary
  19. 2002-06-26
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    Company incorporated
    As ASHTON AIRCONDITIONING SERVICES LIMITED
  20. 2002-06-26
    ➕
    KIBBY, Andrew Darren appointed
    director
  21. 2002-06-26
    ➕
    WILSON, John appointed
    director
  22. 2002-06-26
    ➕
    PETERS, Michael John appointed
    secretary
  23. 2002-06-26
    ➕
    SECRETARIAL APPOINTMENTS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  24. 2002-06-26
    ➖
    SECRETARIAL APPOINTMENTS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary

Owner dependency

83/100
Critical — business is the founder

The business appears inseparable from the founder. Acquisition without a serious earn-out or meaningful transition period would likely destroy value.

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 24 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 71 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

96/100
Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 71 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 24 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 24 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.
  • supportingClean filings + long tenure: Disciplined long-tenure operator — classic lifestyle-business pattern that often sells quietly.

Red flags

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

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2002-06-26
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC35300 — SIC 35300

Registered office

599 Gloucester Road
Horfield
Bristol
BS7 0BW
United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-07-31
Last made up to: 2025-10-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-07-10
Last: 2025-06-26

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

KIBBY, Andrew Darren→
secretary · appointed 2008-05-15
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
KIBBY, Andrew Darren→
director · ~61y · appointed 2002-06-26
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Active
WILSON, John→
director · ~71y · appointed 2002-06-26
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
PETERS, Michael John→
secretary · appointed 2002-06-26 · resigned 2008-05-15
Resigned
SECRETARIAL APPOINTMENTS LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2002-06-26 · resigned 2002-06-26
Resigned

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Recent filings (64 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-01-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-06-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-01-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-06-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-01-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-06-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-02-16
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-06-29
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-01-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-06-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-01-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-06-29
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-02-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-06-26
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2019-03-03