AS & A LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

04592026 · ltd · incorporated 2002-11-15

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 Feb 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Support activities to performing arts

Sector: Arts, entertainment & recreation

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 80-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 80). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (71/100)

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

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

6 officers (3 active, 6 linked, 4 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

3 active PSC(s) of 5 total, 5 with control declared

Director network

2 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

74 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

80/100Exceptional

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.

Key financials

1 year extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

—

Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-02-25
Average employees	3

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

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filings

• 2 gazette
• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (28 events)Click to expand

2026-02-28
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gazette-filings-brought-up-to-date
gazette · DISS40
2026-02-25
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-02-24
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gazette-notice-compulsory
gazette · GAZ1
2025-07-30
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accounts-amended-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AAMD
2025-05-23
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-02-25
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change-account-reference-date-company-current-shortened
accounts · AA01
2024-04-17
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-02-27
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change-account-reference-date-company-current-shortened
accounts · AA01
2023-11-29
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change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
accounts · AA01
2023-02-27
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-02-28
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-01-24
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confirmation-statement · RP04CS01
2022-01-24
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2022-01-21
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2022-01-21
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cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2021-02-26
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-11-17
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change-account-reference-date-company-previous-extended
accounts · AA01
2019-11-18
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2018-03-22
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AMOO, Sylvia appointed
director
2018-02-23
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AMOO, Edward resigned
secretary
2018-02-23
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AMOO, Edward resigned
director
2005-04-06
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SMITH, David Ayodele appointed
director
2002-11-15
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Company incorporated
As AS & A LIMITED
2002-11-15
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AMOO, Chris appointed
director
2002-11-15
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AMOO, Edward appointed
secretary
2002-11-15
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SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
2002-11-15
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SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
2002-11-15
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AMOO, Edward appointed
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

+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 24 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 80 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

90/100

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 80 years old. Natural succession window is now.
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

3 active beneficial owners

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mrs Sylvia Amoo Individual · British · DOB 11/1946 · age 80	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	30/07/2019
Mr Chris Amoo Individual · British · DOB 10/1952 · age 74	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	06/04/2016
Mr David Ayodele Smith Individual · British · DOB 07/1952 · age 74	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	06/04/2016

2 historic (ceased) PSCs

Mrs Sylvia Amooceased 23/02/2018· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting
Mr Edward Amooceased 23/02/2018· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting

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

🔒Co-director network graph

Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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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

Incorporated2002-11-15

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC90020 — Support activities to performing arts

Registered office

15 Alexandra Drive

Liverpool

Merseyside

L17 8TA

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-11-25

Last made up to: 2025-02-25

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-11-29

Last: 2025-11-15

Officers (3 active · 3 resigned)

AMOO, Chris→

director · ~74y · appointed 2002-11-15

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

AMOO, Sylvia→

director · ~80y · appointed 2018-03-22

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

SMITH, David Ayodele→

director · ~74y · appointed 2005-04-06

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

AMOO, Edward→

secretary · appointed 2002-11-15 · resigned 2018-02-23

Resigned

SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2002-11-15 · resigned 2002-11-15

Resigned

AMOO, Edward→

director · ~82y · appointed 2002-11-15 · resigned 2018-02-23

Resigned

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Recent filings (74 total)

gazette-filings-brought-up-to-date

gazette · DISS40

2026-02-28

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2026-02-26

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2026-02-25

gazette-notice-compulsory

gazette · GAZ1

2026-02-24

accounts-amended-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AAMD

2025-07-30

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2025-05-23

change-account-reference-date-company-current-shortened

accounts · AA01

2025-02-25

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2025-01-17

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2024-04-17

change-account-reference-date-company-current-shortened

accounts · AA01

2024-02-27

change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened

accounts · AA01

2023-11-29

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2023-11-16

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2023-02-27

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2022-11-18

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2022-02-28