ACCENT DESIGN GROUP LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
04618709 · ltd · incorporated 2002-12-16
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.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
- · Oldest live charge 23.0y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Jun 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Other information technology service activities
Sector: Information & communication
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
- 74100Specialised design activities
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 61-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 61). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (73/100).
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Refinance opportunity
1 live charge · oldest 23.0y
85/100
ready
Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.
- · Oldest live charge is 23.0 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
- · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.
Data confidence
Overall: medium (79/100)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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
6 officers (3 active, 6 linked, 4 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
79 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
83/100Exceptional
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
85
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown| Metric | 2025-06-30 | 2024-06-30 |
|---|---|---|
| Average employees | 800 | 800 |
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
0
filings
Last 90 days
2
filings
- • 1 accounts
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
2
filings
- • 1 accounts
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (30 events)Click to expand
- 2026-03-23📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2025-03-24📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2024-03-20📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2023-12-15📄resolutionresolution · RESOLUTIONS
- 2023-12-14📄memorandum-articlesincorporation · MA
- 2023-12-11📄capital-name-of-class-of-sharescapital · SH08
- 2023-12-08📄capital-variation-of-rights-attached-to-sharescapital · SH10
- 2023-12-06📄statement-of-companys-objectschange-of-constitution · CC04
- 2023-12-06📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2023-12-06📄cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC07
- 2023-04-07📄mortgage-satisfy-charge-fullmortgage · MR04
- 2023-04-07🔓Charge satisfied #1
- 2023-03-16📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2022-03-25📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2021-11-01📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2021-11-01📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2021-09-21📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2021-05-21📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2020-03-24📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2013-01-01➕FULLER, David John appointeddirector
- 2003-06-08🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Hsbc Bank PLC
- 2002-12-18➕SOMNER, Louise Elizabeth appointedsecretary
- 2002-12-18➕SOMNER, Geoffrey William appointeddirector
- 2002-12-18➖POCOCK, Simon resignedsecretary
- 2002-12-18➖POCOCK, Shiona Gwynedd Susan resigneddirector
- 2002-12-18➖POCOCK, Simon resigneddirector
- 2002-12-16🏢Company incorporatedAs ACCENT DESIGN GROUP LIMITED
- 2002-12-16➕POCOCK, Simon appointedsecretary
- 2002-12-16➕POCOCK, Shiona Gwynedd Susan appointeddirector
- 2002-12-16➕POCOCK, Simon appointeddirector
Owner dependency
76/100
High — earn-out structure requiredMaterial founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.
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 23 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 61 — approaching natural succession window.
Succession & seller-readiness
76/100
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 61. Early succession window.
- secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
- primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 23 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 23 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
2 active beneficial owners| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mr David John Fuller Individual · British · DOB 05/1977 · age 49 | 50–75% | — | 50-75% shares | 16/12/2016 |
Mr Geoffrey William Somner Individual · British · DOB 08/1965 · age 61 | 25–50% | — | 25-50% shares | 16/12/2016 |
1 historic (ceased) PSC
- Mrs Louise Elizabeth Somnerceased 17/03/2022· 25-50% shares
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
🔒Co-director network graph
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Available from the Pro tier upwards.
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🔒Tailored diligence questions
6 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
Incorporated2002-12-16
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC62090 — Other information technology service activities
Registered office
The Enterprise Centre
University Of East Anglia
Norwich
NR4 7TJ
England
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2027-03-31
Last made up to: 2025-06-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-13
Last: 2026-02-27
Officers (3 active · 3 resigned)
SOMNER, Louise Elizabeth→
Activesecretary · appointed 2002-12-18
View their other companies + combined net worth →
FULLER, David John→
Activedirector · ~49y · appointed 2013-01-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
SOMNER, Geoffrey William→
Activedirector · ~61y · appointed 2002-12-18
View their other companies + combined net worth →
POCOCK, Simon→
Resignedsecretary · appointed 2002-12-16 · resigned 2002-12-18
POCOCK, Shiona Gwynedd Susan→
Resigneddirector · ~84y · appointed 2002-12-16 · resigned 2002-12-18
POCOCK, Simon→
Resigneddirector · ~82y · appointed 2002-12-16 · resigned 2002-12-18
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Mortgages & charges
1
Total charges
0
Outstanding
0
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| satisfied | HSBC Hsbc Bank PLC | Debenture | 1 property | 08/06/2003 | 07/04/2023 |
Recent filings (79 total)
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2026-03-23
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-03-24
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-03-20
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-13
resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2023-12-15
memorandum-articles
incorporation · MA
2023-12-14
capital-name-of-class-of-shares
capital · SH08
2023-12-11
capital-variation-of-rights-attached-to-shares
capital · SH10
2023-12-08
statement-of-companys-objects
change-of-constitution · CC04
2023-12-06
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-12-06
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2023-12-06
mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2023-04-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-03-16