ADVANCED MEDICAL EQUIPMENT LIMITED
💤Zombieactive
04498804 · ltd · incorporated 2002-07-30
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 Dec 2024
Net worth
£-39.7k
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Agents specialised in the sale of other particular products
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
Pass (distressed without resilience)Distressed active trading company — structural issues outweigh the discount.
Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 58). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).
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Refinance opportunity
1 live charge · oldest 18.2y
45/100
under pressure
Refinance would be pressure-driven, not opportunity-driven. Expect tighter margins and covenant scrutiny.
- · Oldest live charge is 18.2 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
- · Distress signals active — lender appetite narrows.
Data confidence
Overall: medium (69/100)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
1 year of iXBRL accounts extracted (no YoY comparison) + narrative notes parsed
50
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
4 officers (2 active, 4 linked, 1 with DOB)
75
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
73 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
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
100
Good data coverage for analysis.
Signals from accounts
Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declaredNegative net assets
Liabilities exceed assets by £39,699
Key financials
1 year extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
£1k
Net Worth
-£40k
Current Assets
—
Current Liabilities
—
Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown| Metric | 2024-12-30 |
|---|---|
| Cash | £1.1k |
| Net assets | £-39.7k |
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.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
1
filing
- • 1 accounts
Last 90 days
1
filing
- • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
2
filings
- • 2 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (26 events)Click to expand
- 2026-05-29📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2025-12-17📄change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortenedaccounts · AA01
- 2025-09-25📄change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortenedaccounts · AA01
- 2025-06-02📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-12-18📄change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortenedaccounts · AA01
- 2024-09-26📄change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortenedaccounts · AA01
- 2024-03-21📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-12-21📄change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortenedaccounts · AA01
- 2023-09-29📄change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortenedaccounts · AA01
- 2023-03-28📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-06-09📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2022-02-23📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-07-02📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-12-08📄change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortenedaccounts · AA01
- 2020-12-08📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2019-12-17📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2019-09-17📄change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortenedaccounts · AA01
- 2018-10-05📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2008-04-15🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC
- 2002-08-05➕RUIZ DE RODRIGUEZ, Rosa Maria appointedsecretary
- 2002-08-05➕RODRIGUEZ CAMPA, Miguel Angel appointeddirector
- 2002-08-05➖HARRISON, Irene Lesley resignednominee-secretary
- 2002-08-05➖BUSINESS INFORMATION RESEARCH & REPORTING LIMITED resignedcorporate-nominee-director
- 2002-07-30🏢Company incorporatedAs ADVANCED MEDICAL EQUIPMENT LIMITED
- 2002-07-30➕HARRISON, Irene Lesley appointednominee-secretary
- 2002-07-30➕BUSINESS INFORMATION RESEARCH & REPORTING LIMITED appointedcorporate-nominee-director
Owner dependency
93/100
Critical — business is the founderThe business appears inseparable from the founder. Acquisition without a serious earn-out or meaningful transition period would likely destroy value.
FACTORS
- +Sole director: Only one active director — all governance concentrated on one person.
- +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 24 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 58 — approaching natural succession window.
Succession & seller-readiness
85/100
Likely off-market candidateStrong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.
SIGNALS
- secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 58. Early succession window.
- primarySole active director: Only one director in control. No visible successor — buyers solve the succession problem.
- 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
cleanNo red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)
Shareholders & ownership
1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mr Miguel Angel Rodriguez Campa Individual · British · DOB 04/1968 · age 58 | 75–100% | 75–100% | board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control | 06/04/2016 |
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
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Peers ranked by estimated value, then turnover, then opportunity score.See all →
🔒Tailored diligence questions
7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →🔒Advanced scoring suite
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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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2002-07-30
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC46180 — Agents specialised in the sale of other particular products
Registered office
9 Donnington Park
85 Birdham Road
Chichester
West Sussex
PO20 7AJ
United Kingdom
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-23
Last made up to: 2024-12-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-08-13
Last: 2025-07-30
Officers (2 active · 2 resigned)
RUIZ DE RODRIGUEZ, Rosa Maria→
Activesecretary · appointed 2002-08-05
View their other companies + combined net worth →
RODRIGUEZ CAMPA, Miguel Angel→
Activedirector · ~58y · appointed 2002-08-05
View their other companies + combined net worth →
HARRISON, Irene Lesley→
Resignednominee-secretary · appointed 2002-07-30 · resigned 2002-08-05
BUSINESS INFORMATION RESEARCH & REPORTING LIMITED→
Resignedcorporate-nominee-director · appointed 2002-07-30 · resigned 2002-08-05
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Mortgages & charges
1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Lloyds Banking Group Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC | Mortgage | 1 property | 15/04/2008 | — |
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Recent filings (73 total)
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-05-29
change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
accounts · AA01
2025-12-17
change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
accounts · AA01
2025-09-25
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-08-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-06-02
change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
accounts · AA01
2024-12-18
change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
accounts · AA01
2024-09-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-07-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-03-21
change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
accounts · AA01
2023-12-21
change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
accounts · AA01
2023-09-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-07-31
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-03-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-08-02
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2022-06-09