ASIA COMPONENT SUPPLIES LIMITED

💤Zombieactive
04852428 · ltd · incorporated 2003-07-31
Investment thesis
Zombie company — trading but stalled; unlikely mover.
Why interesting: Quiet, steady; could be a succession or carve-out candidate with the right conversation.
Why risky: No growth signal; thin margin for error on price.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Sept 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 28990
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 73-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 73). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Broaden director team. Sole director creates succession risk and reduces buyer comfort. Appoint a second director or strong #2. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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
6 officers (2 active, 6 linked, 3 with DOB)
80
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
65 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.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Sept 2024Sept 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-09-302024-09-30
Average employees383100

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (26 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-04-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-10-29
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  3. 2025-10-29
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    change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH03
  4. 2025-10-29
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  5. 2025-10-29
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  6. 2025-09-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2024-09-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  8. 2023-09-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  9. 2022-08-02
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  10. 2021-06-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  11. 2020-06-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  12. 2019-08-22
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  13. 2019-08-21
    ➖
    FARIDFAR, Hamed resigned
    director
  14. 2019-06-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  15. 2018-06-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  16. 2017-06-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  17. 2010-09-30
    ➖
    WRIGHT, David resigned
    director
  18. 2005-10-01
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    FARIDFAR, Hamed appointed
    director
  19. 2003-07-31
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    Company incorporated
    As ASIA COMPONENT SUPPLIES LIMITED
  20. 2003-07-31
    ➕
    MOHTASHAM, Mehdi appointed
    secretary
  21. 2003-07-31
    ➕
    MOHTASHAM, Mehdi appointed
    director
  22. 2003-07-31
    ➕
    TEMPLE SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  23. 2003-07-31
    ➖
    TEMPLE SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  24. 2003-07-31
    ➕
    WRIGHT, David appointed
    director
  25. 2003-07-31
    ➕
    COMPANY DIRECTORS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  26. 2003-07-31
    ➖
    COMPANY DIRECTORS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-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
  • +Sole director: Only one active director — all governance concentrated on one person.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 23 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 73 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

100/100
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 73 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • primarySole active director: Only one director in control. No visible successor — buyers solve the succession problem.
  • 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 · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Mehdi Mohtasham
Individual · British · DOB 06/1953 · age 73
75–100%
—75-100% shares06/04/2016

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

8 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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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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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2003-07-31
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC28990 — SIC 28990

Registered office

2 Ormside Close
Hindley Green
Wigan
WN2 4HR
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-06-30
Last made up to: 2025-09-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-08-14
Last: 2025-07-31

Officers (2 active · 4 resigned)

MOHTASHAM, Mehdi→
secretary · appointed 2003-07-31
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MOHTASHAM, Mehdi→
director · ~73y · appointed 2003-07-31
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
TEMPLE SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2003-07-31 · resigned 2003-07-31
Resigned
FARIDFAR, Hamed→
director · ~51y · appointed 2005-10-01 · resigned 2019-08-21
Resigned
WRIGHT, David→
director · ~59y · appointed 2003-07-31 · resigned 2010-09-30
Resigned
COMPANY DIRECTORS LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2003-07-31 · resigned 2003-07-31
Resigned

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Recent filings (65 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-04-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-01-09
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-10-29
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2025-10-29
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-10-29
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2025-10-29
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-09-29
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2024-09-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-08-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2023-09-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-08-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-08-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-08-02
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-08-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-06-23