ALMADA PRODUCTIONS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
05086178 · ltd · incorporated 2004-03-26
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 Mar 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 99999
Sector: Extraterritorial bodies
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 69-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 69). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. 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
4 officers (3 active, 4 linked, 2 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
66 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£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Average employees00

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 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-09-09
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    change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH03
  3. 2025-09-09
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  4. 2025-09-09
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
  5. 2025-09-09
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  6. 2025-09-09
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  7. 2024-12-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2023-12-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2022-12-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2021-12-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2021-04-16
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
  12. 2021-03-26
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    change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH03
  13. 2021-03-26
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  14. 2021-03-26
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  15. 2021-01-29
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  16. 2020-12-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  17. 2019-12-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  18. 2014-04-01
    ➕
    GRESHAM RADCLIFFE, Marcia Genine appointed
    director
  19. 2004-03-26
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    Company incorporated
    As ALMADA PRODUCTIONS LIMITED
  20. 2004-03-26
    ➕
    GRESHAM RADCLIFFE, Marcia Genine appointed
    secretary
  21. 2004-03-26
    ➕
    RADCLIFFE, Alan George appointed
    director
  22. 2004-03-26
    ➕
    SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  23. 2004-03-26
    ➖
    SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary

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 22 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 69 — 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 69. 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.)

Group structure

Gilmore Jacobs Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Gilmore Jacobs Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control
ultimate parent
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ALMADA PRODUCTIONS LIMITED
This company · 05086178

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
Gilmore Jacobs Limited
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% 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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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2004-03-26
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC99999 — SIC 99999

Registered office

Suite 8 Phoenix House
Christopher Martin Road
Basildon
Essex
SS14 3EZ
United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-09
Last: 2026-03-26

Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)

GRESHAM RADCLIFFE, Marcia Genine→
secretary · appointed 2004-03-26
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
GRESHAM RADCLIFFE, Marcia Genine→
director · ~69y · appointed 2014-04-01
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Active
RADCLIFFE, Alan George→
director · ~67y · appointed 2004-03-26
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2004-03-26 · resigned 2004-03-26
Resigned

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Recent filings (66 total)

confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-24
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2025-09-09
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-09-09
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2025-09-09
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-09-09
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2025-09-09
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-31
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-24
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-22
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-04-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-23
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-04-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-12-24