A.A. ELECTRICAL INSTALLATIONS SERVICES LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

04825462 · ltd · incorporated 2003-07-08

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 Jul 2025

Net worth

£124.5k

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Electrical installation

Sector: Construction

Investor take

Pursue

Asset-holding vehicle with a 68-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 68). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Cash flow review and working-capital discipline. Cash down -60% YoY — forensic review of receivables, stock turns, and creditor days. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (78/100)

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

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

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared

Director network

1 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

62 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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102

Positive net assets

Net assets £124,489

Net assets shrinking

Down £79,173 YoY

Cash draining

Cash down 60% YoY

Cash YoY

-60%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£93k

↓ 60% YoY

Net Worth

£124k

↓ 39% YoY

Current Assets

£250k

↓ 21% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-07-31	2024-07-31
Total assets	£172.9k	£259.1k
Current assets	£249.7k	£315.6k
Cash	£93.1k	£232.0k
Debtors	£156.6k	£83.6k
Net assets	£124.5k	£203.7k

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

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4 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

• 1 accounts
• 1 officers

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 accounts
• 1 officers

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand

2026-04-24
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accounts · AA
2026-03-17
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officers · TM01
2026-03-02
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ARMSTRONG, David John resigned
director
2025-04-15
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accounts · AA
2024-04-30
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-04-03
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-06-06
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accounts · AA
2021-04-12
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-04-09
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-04-20
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2018-05-28
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officers · CH01
2018-05-28
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officers · CH01
2018-05-28
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officers · CH03
2018-05-28
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2018-03-28
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accounts · AA
2017-04-23
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accounts · AA
2007-06-15
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LESTER, Michael John appointed
director
2007-06-15
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ARMSTRONG, David John appointed
director
2003-07-08
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Company incorporated
As A.A. ELECTRICAL INSTALLATIONS SERVICES LIMITED
2003-07-08
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ADCOCK, Teresa Anne appointed
secretary
2003-07-08
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ADCOCK, Anthony Albert appointed
director
2003-07-08
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AT SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
2003-07-08
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AT SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
2003-07-08
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AT DIRECTORS LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-director
2003-07-08
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AT DIRECTORS LIMITED resigned
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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

+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.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 68 — succession pressure is live.

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 68. 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 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

clean

No 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

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Anthony Albert Adcock Individual · British · DOB 06/1958 · age 68	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	08/07/2016

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

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

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🔒Tailored diligence questions

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

Incorporated2003-07-08

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC43210 — Electrical installation

Registered office

54,Cherry Crescent

Brentford

Middlesex

TW8 8NN

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-04-30

Last made up to: 2025-07-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-07-22

Last: 2025-07-08

Officers (3 active · 3 resigned)

ADCOCK, Teresa Anne→

secretary · appointed 2003-07-08

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Active

ADCOCK, Anthony Albert→

director · ~68y · appointed 2003-07-08

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Active

LESTER, Michael John→

director · ~63y · appointed 2007-06-15

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Active

AT SECRETARIES LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2003-07-08 · resigned 2003-07-08

Resigned

ARMSTRONG, David John→

director · ~56y · appointed 2007-06-15 · resigned 2026-03-02

Resigned

AT DIRECTORS LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2003-07-08 · resigned 2003-07-08

Resigned

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Recent filings (62 total)

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accounts · AA

2026-04-24

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officers · TM01

2026-03-17