BLACKER STEEL FABRICATIONS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
04837724 · ltd · incorporated 2003-07-18
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 Sept 2025
Net worth
£2.11M
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 25990
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Asset-holding vehicle with a 67-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 67). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Cash flow review and working-capital discipline. Cash down -40% 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
75
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)
78
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
63 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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £2,110,965
Cash draining
Cash down 40% YoY
Cash YoY
-40%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£795k
↓ 40% YoY
Net Worth
£2.1m
↑ 11% YoY
Current Assets
£1.5m
↓ 19% YoY
Current Liabilities
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£0£422k£844k£1.3m£1.7m£2.1mSept 2024Sept 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-09-302024-09-30
Total assets£2.19M£1.96M
Current assets£1.53M£1.90M
Cash£794.9k£1.34M
Debtors£686.6k£469.5k
Net assets£2.11M£1.90M

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

1 signal 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
4
filings
  • • 3 persons-with-significant-control
  • • 1 accounts
Last 90 days
4
filings
  • • 3 persons-with-significant-control
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
4
filings
  • • 3 persons-with-significant-control
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-05-09
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  2. 2026-05-09
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  3. 2026-05-09
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  4. 2026-05-05
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  5. 2025-03-26
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  6. 2024-04-18
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  7. 2023-04-20
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  8. 2023-02-01
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    BLACKER, Jane Clare appointed
    director
  9. 2023-02-01
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  10. 2022-06-17
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  11. 2021-04-22
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  12. 2020-06-24
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  13. 2019-07-18
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  14. 2019-04-17
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  15. 2018-06-22
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  16. 2017-09-27
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  17. 2017-09-27
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  18. 2017-09-25
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  19. 2003-07-18
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    Company incorporated
    As BLACKER STEEL FABRICATIONS LIMITED
  20. 2003-07-18
    ➕
    BLACKER, Jane Clare appointed
    secretary
  21. 2003-07-18
    ➕
    BLACKER, Stephen James appointed
    director
  22. 2003-07-18
    ➕
    RM REGISTRARS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-secretary
  23. 2003-07-18
    ➖
    RM REGISTRARS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-secretary
  24. 2003-07-18
    ➕
    RM NOMINEES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-director
  25. 2003-07-18
    ➖
    RM NOMINEES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-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 "BLACKER" — strong identity link between founder and business.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 23 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 67 — 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 67. 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.)

Group structure

Blacker Group Ltd is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Blacker Group Ltd
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control
ultimate parent
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BLACKER STEEL FABRICATIONS LIMITED
This company · 04837724

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Blacker Group Ltd
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control24/04/2026
2 historic (ceased) PSCs
  • Mrs Jane Clare Blackerceased 24/04/2026· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting
  • Mr Stephen James Blackerceased 24/04/2026· 50-75% shares · 50-75% voting

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
Incorporated2003-07-18
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC25990 — SIC 25990

Registered office

Haygarth Hull Road
Dunnington
York
YO19 5LR
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-06-30
Last made up to: 2025-09-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-08-01
Last: 2025-07-18

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

BLACKER, Jane Clare→
secretary · appointed 2003-07-18
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BLACKER, Jane Clare→
director · ~55y · appointed 2023-02-01
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Active
BLACKER, Stephen James→
director · ~67y · appointed 2003-07-18
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Active
RM REGISTRARS LIMITED→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2003-07-18 · resigned 2003-07-18
Resigned
RM NOMINEES LIMITED→
corporate-director · appointed 2003-07-18 · resigned 2003-07-18
Resigned

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Recent filings (63 total)

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persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2026-05-09
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2026-05-09
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2026-05-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-05-05
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-07-24
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2025-03-26
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-07-25
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2024-04-18
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-07-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-04-20
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officers · AP01
2023-02-01
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-07-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-06-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-07-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-04-22