800 LIMITED

📈Growthactive
05070981 · ltd · incorporated 2004-03-11
Investment thesis
Growth-phase business — story-led; valuation sensitive to momentum.
Why interesting: Trading is scaling; acquirers paying for trajectory get disproportionate leverage.
Why risky: Price often leads fundamentals; dependency on founder often high.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 20.3y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
£35.28M
year to Mar 2025
Net worth
—
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Electrical installation
Sector: Construction
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 43220Plumbing, heat and air-conditioning installation
  • 43310Plastering
  • 43320Joinery installation
Investor take
Pursue
Conservative operator with a 65-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 65). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (78/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 20.3y

60/100
clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

  • · Oldest live charge is 20.3 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.
  • · Profitable and stable/growing — lender coverage supportable.

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, 4 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)
78
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
60 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

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Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
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
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102
Profitable
Profit before tax £1,153,161
Strong revenue growth
Turnover up 53% YoY
Turnover YoY
+53%
Year on year

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£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Turnover£35.28M£23.01M
Gross profit£3.98M£3.15M
Operating profit£1.23M£1.01M
Profit before tax£1.15M£934.6k
Average employees69005900

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
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (26 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-11-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-medium
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-12-22
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    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-12-05
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    mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
    mortgage · MR04
  4. 2024-12-05
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    Charge satisfied #2
  5. 2023-12-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-medium
    accounts · AA
  6. 2023-03-15
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    change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH03
  7. 2022-12-06
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2021-12-06
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    accounts · AA
  9. 2021-09-08
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  10. 2021-09-02
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Great American International Insurance (UK) Limited
  11. 2021-03-02
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2019-12-12
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2018-12-10
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2017-12-06
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  15. 2017-07-26
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  16. 2017-07-26
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  17. 2016-12-15
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    accounts · AA
  18. 2006-03-13
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
  19. 2004-03-11
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    Company incorporated
    As 800 LIMITED
  20. 2004-03-11
    ➕
    SHAYER, Tracey Karon Winter appointed
    secretary
  21. 2004-03-11
    ➕
    SHAYER, John Laurence appointed
    director
  22. 2004-03-11
    ➕
    SHAYER, Tracey Karon Winter appointed
    director
  23. 2004-03-11
    ➕
    TEMPLE SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  24. 2004-03-11
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    TEMPLE SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  25. 2004-03-11
    ➕
    COMPANY DIRECTORS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  26. 2004-03-11
    ➖
    COMPANY DIRECTORS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

91/100
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 22 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 65 — 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 65. 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 22 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 22 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

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mrs Tracey Karon Winter Shayer
Individual · British · DOB 09/1961 · age 65
25–50%
25–50%board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control06/04/2016
Mr John Laurence Shayer
Individual · British · DOB 07/1961 · age 65
25–50%
25–50%board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control06/04/2016

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

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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
Incorporated2004-03-11
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC43210 — Electrical installation

Registered office

Cranborne Road
Potters Bar
Herts
EN6 3JN

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-25
Last: 2026-03-11

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

SHAYER, Tracey Karon Winter→
secretary · appointed 2004-03-11
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Active
SHAYER, John Laurence→
director · ~65y · appointed 2004-03-11
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Active
SHAYER, Tracey Karon Winter→
director · ~65y · appointed 2004-03-11
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Active
TEMPLE SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2004-03-11 · resigned 2004-03-11
Resigned
COMPANY DIRECTORS LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2004-03-11 · resigned 2004-03-11
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
satisfied
Great American International Insurance (UK)
Great American International Insurance (UK) Limited
A registered charge—02/09/202105/12/2024
outstanding
National Westminster Bank
National Westminster Bank PLC
Debenture1 property13/03/2006—
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Recent filings (60 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-medium
accounts · AA
2025-11-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-medium
accounts · AA
2024-12-22
mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2024-12-05
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-medium
accounts · AA
2023-12-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-21
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2023-03-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-06
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2021-12-06
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2021-09-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-03-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2021-03-02