A & M NELSON LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
04503274 · ltd · incorporated 2002-08-05
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 Aug 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 23700
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 65-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

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

Data confidence

Overall: medium (76/100)

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
2 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
70 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£0Aug 2024Aug 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-08-312024-08-31
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.

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. 2025-11-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-05-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-05-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-02-08
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-02-10
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  6. 2021-05-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  7. 2020-08-05
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    move-registers-to-sail-company-with-new-address
    address · AD03
  8. 2020-05-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  9. 2019-05-10
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  10. 2019-04-18
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  11. 2019-04-18
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  12. 2018-01-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  13. 2017-08-18
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  14. 2017-08-18
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  15. 2017-04-10
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    capital-allotment-shares
    capital · SH01
  16. 2017-02-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  17. 2016-03-10
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    NELSON, Maureen appointed
    director
  18. 2002-08-05
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    Company incorporated
    As A & M NELSON LIMITED
  19. 2002-08-05
    ➕
    NELSON, Maureen appointed
    secretary
  20. 2002-08-05
    ➕
    NELSON, Andrew appointed
    director
  21. 2002-08-05
    ➕
    ASHBURTON REGISTRARS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  22. 2002-08-05
    ➖
    ASHBURTON REGISTRARS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  23. 2002-08-05
    ➕
    AR NOMINEES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  24. 2002-08-05
    ➖
    AR NOMINEES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

100/100
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.
  • +Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "NELSON" — strong identity link between founder and business.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 24 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 65 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

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 65. 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
Maureen Nelson
Individual · British · DOB 05/1963 · age 63
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting07/03/2019
Mr Andrew Nelson
Individual · British · DOB 08/1961 · age 65
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Maureen Nelsonceased 01/04/2017· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control

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

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2002-08-05
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC23700 — SIC 23700

Registered office

82 Barrowmoor Road
Appleby
CA16 6SB
United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-05-31
Last made up to: 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-08-19
Last: 2025-08-05

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

NELSON, Maureen→
secretary · appointed 2002-08-05
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
NELSON, Andrew→
director · ~65y · appointed 2002-08-05
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
NELSON, Maureen→
director · ~63y · appointed 2016-03-10
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
ASHBURTON REGISTRARS LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2002-08-05 · resigned 2002-08-05
Resigned
AR NOMINEES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2002-08-05 · resigned 2002-08-05
Resigned

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Recent filings (70 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-11-04
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-08-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-05-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-08-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-05-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-08-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-02-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-08-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-02-10
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-08-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-05-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-08-05
move-registers-to-sail-company-with-new-address
address · AD03
2020-08-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2020-05-31
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-08-13