ABS BLINDS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
05074185 · ltd · incorporated 2004-03-16
Investment thesis
Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.
Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.
Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 17.0y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 47510
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
Pursue
Conservative operator with a 62-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 62). 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

1 live charge · oldest 17.0y

75/100
ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

  • · Oldest live charge is 17.0 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.
  • · Profitable and stable/growing — lender coverage supportable.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (71/100)

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
1 year of iXBRL accounts extracted (no YoY comparison) + narrative notes parsed
50
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 3 with DOB)
82
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
69 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 £138,888

Key financials

1 year 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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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-31
Profit before tax£138.9k
Average employees5

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
0
filings
Last 90 days
4
filings
  • • 3 officers
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
5
filings
  • • 3 officers
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (28 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-04-10
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  2. 2026-04-10
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    change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH03
  3. 2026-04-10
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  4. 2025-12-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2024-12-10
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    accounts-amended-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AAMD
  6. 2024-11-26
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  7. 2024-11-26
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  8. 2024-11-26
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  9. 2024-11-26
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  10. 2024-10-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2023-08-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2023-03-20
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  13. 2023-03-20
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  14. 2023-03-20
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  15. 2022-08-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  16. 2021-12-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  17. 2021-11-16
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  18. 2021-11-16
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  19. 2021-11-16
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  20. 2009-05-10
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  21. 2005-04-01
    ➕
    FROST, Michael appointed
    director
  22. 2004-03-16
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    Company incorporated
    As ABS BLINDS LIMITED
  23. 2004-03-16
    ➕
    FROST, Michael appointed
    secretary
  24. 2004-03-16
    ➕
    FROST, Samantha Jane appointed
    director
  25. 2004-03-16
    ➕
    WAYNE, Harold appointed
    nominee-secretary
  26. 2004-03-16
    ➖
    WAYNE, Harold resigned
    nominee-secretary
  27. 2004-03-16
    ➕
    WAYNE, Yvonne appointed
    nominee-director
  28. 2004-03-16
    ➖
    WAYNE, Yvonne resigned
    nominee-director

Owner dependency

84/100
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.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 62 — approaching natural succession window.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

76/100
Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS
  • secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 62. Early succession window.
  • 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 Samantha Jane Frost
Individual · British · DOB 07/1967 · age 59
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016
Mr Michael Frost
Individual · British · DOB 10/1964 · age 62
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016

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

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6 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
Incorporated2004-03-16
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC47510 — SIC 47510

Registered office

Private & Confidential
7 Ashford Road
Tenterden
Kent
TN30 6AB
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-30
Last: 2026-03-16

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

FROST, Michael→
secretary · appointed 2004-03-16
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
FROST, Michael→
director · ~62y · appointed 2005-04-01
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Active
FROST, Samantha Jane→
director · ~59y · appointed 2004-03-16
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Active
WAYNE, Harold→
nominee-secretary · appointed 2004-03-16 · resigned 2004-03-16
Resigned
WAYNE, Yvonne→
nominee-director · ~46y · appointed 2004-03-16 · resigned 2004-03-16
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
Debenture1 property10/05/2009—
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Recent filings (69 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-11
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-04-10
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2026-04-10
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-04-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-17
accounts-amended-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AAMD
2024-12-10
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-11-26
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2024-11-26
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-11-26
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2024-11-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-10-11
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-08-31
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-20