ADENI LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
04471259 · ltd · incorporated 2002-06-27
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: Management consultancy activities other than financial management
Sector: Professional, scientific & technical
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 74902Quantity surveying activities
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 68-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 68). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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, 2 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
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
72 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 · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-10-312024-10-31
Average employees200200

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

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

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (22 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-05-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-06-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-07-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-07-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-07-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  6. 2021-07-01
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  7. 2021-06-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  8. 2020-10-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  9. 2019-07-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  10. 2018-08-03
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2017-11-06
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  12. 2017-05-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  13. 2016-02-05
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  14. 2015-07-28
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    annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
    annual-return · AR01
  15. 2002-06-28
    ➕
    DAVIES, Paul Brendan appointed
    secretary
  16. 2002-06-28
    ➕
    DAVIES, Paul Brendan appointed
    director
  17. 2002-06-28
    ➕
    FAYERS, Colin appointed
    director
  18. 2002-06-28
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    HCS SECRETARIAL LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  19. 2002-06-28
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    HANOVER DIRECTORS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director
  20. 2002-06-27
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    Company incorporated
    As ADENI LIMITED
  21. 2002-06-27
    ➕
    HCS SECRETARIAL LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  22. 2002-06-27
    ➕
    HANOVER DIRECTORS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director

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 68 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

86/100
Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 68. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • 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.)

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Colin Fayers
Individual · British · DOB 01/1958 · age 68
25–50%
—25-50% shares22/06/2016
Mr Paul Brendan Davies
Individual · British · DOB 10/1960 · age 66
25–50%
—25-50% shares22/06/2016

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

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7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2002-06-27
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC70229 — Management consultancy activities other than financial management

Registered office

38 Nant Arw
Capel Hendre
Ammanford
Carmarthenshire
SA18 3SX
Wales

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-07-31
Last made up to: 2025-10-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-09-18
Last: 2025-09-04

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

DAVIES, Paul Brendan→
secretary · appointed 2002-06-28
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Active
DAVIES, Paul Brendan→
director · ~66y · appointed 2002-06-28
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
FAYERS, Colin→
director · ~68y · appointed 2002-06-28
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HCS SECRETARIAL LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2002-06-27 · resigned 2002-06-28
Resigned
HANOVER DIRECTORS LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2002-06-27 · resigned 2002-06-28
Resigned

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Recent filings (72 total)

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accounts · AA
2026-05-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-09-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-06-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-09-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-07-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-09-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-07-11
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-09-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-07-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-10-01
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2021-07-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-06-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-11-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2020-10-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-10-07