BRITISH PROMOTIONAL MERCHANDISE ASSOCIATION LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

04546290 · private-limited-guarant-nsc · incorporated 2002-09-26

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

—

year to May 2025

Net worth

£722.5k

book net assets

Opportunity

81/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Activities of professional membership organisations

Sector: Other service activities

Investor take

Pursue

Asset-holding vehicle with a 67-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 67). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (73/100)

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

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

67 officers (10 active, 67 linked, 62 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)

Director network

7 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

210 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

81/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

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

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared

Positive net assets

Net assets £722,531

Cash YoY

+10%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£771k

↑ 10% YoY

Net Worth

£723k

↑ 19% YoY

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-05-31	2024-05-31
Cash	£770.8k	£697.7k
Net assets	£722.5k	£605.9k

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filings

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (146 events)Click to expand

2025-11-07
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2025-08-20
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officers · TM01
2025-06-01
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ADAM, Julia Kathryn resigned
director
2024-11-14
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officers · TM01
2024-11-14
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officers · TM01
2024-11-05
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HUSSAIN, Bilal resigned
director
2024-11-05
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WILLETTS, Haydn Paul resigned
director
2024-10-29
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accounts · AA
2024-07-15
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officers · TM01
2024-06-01
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TURNER, Alexander Edward resigned
director
2023-12-13
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officers · AP01
2023-12-13
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officers · AP01
2023-11-07
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SULLIVAN, Richard James appointed
director
2023-11-07
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ADAM, Julia Kathryn appointed
director
2023-09-20
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accounts · AA
2023-06-20
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officers · TM01
2023-06-06
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SMITH, Graeme Murray Openshaw resigned
director
2023-03-21
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BRENNAN, Helen Sinead appointed
director
2023-03-21
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MARSHALL, James Michael appointed
director
2023-03-21
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BRENNAN, Helen Sinead resigned
director
2023-03-21
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MARSHALL, James Michael resigned
director
2023-03-21
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WILLETTS, Haydn Paul appointed
director
2023-03-21
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WILLETTS, Haydn Paul resigned
director
2023-03-21
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2023-03-21
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2023-03-21
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2023-03-21
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2023-03-21
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2023-03-21
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2023-03-21
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officers · CH01
2023-03-21
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2023-03-21
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2022-10-20
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2022-04-09
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2022-01-01
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ALLCOTT, Clive appointed
director
2022-01-01
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MARSHALL, James Michael appointed
director
2021-11-02
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HUSSAIN, Bilal appointed
director
2020-09-30
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ALLCOTT, Clive Jeffery resigned
director
2019-09-11
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HILL, Andrew John resigned
director
2019-07-15
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FRANKS, Matthew John resigned
director
2018-11-07
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LANGLEY, Andrew Robert appointed
director
2018-11-07
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BRENNAN, Helen Sinead appointed
director
2018-11-07
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MORGAN, Philip John resigned
director
2018-11-07
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WILLETTS, Haydn Paul appointed
director
2018-09-13
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GARNETT, Malcolm Jonathan resigned
director
2018-05-14
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ALDERSON, Mark Edward appointed
director
2017-11-10
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HILL, Andrew John appointed
director
2017-11-07
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MACK, Richard James resigned
director
2017-10-15
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ALLCOTT, Clive Jeffery appointed
director
2017-08-04
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KOUROUSHI, Andrew resigned
director

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Owner dependency

65/100

High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS

-10 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 17 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 67 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

63/100

Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 67. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 17 years.
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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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

Typeprivate-limited-guarant-nsc

Incorporated2002-09-26

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC94120 — Activities of professional membership organisations

Registered office

1 Claydon Business Park

Great Blakenham

Ipswich

Suffolk

IP6 0NL

United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-02-28

Last made up to: 2025-05-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-10-14

Last: 2025-09-30