ADHESIVE SOLUTIONS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
05123868 · ltd · incorporated 2004-05-10
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.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 8.3y old — refinance window within 12 months
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Turnover
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year to Oct 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Wholesale of other machinery and equipment
Sector: Wholesale & retail
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 46750SIC 46750
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 61-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 61). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 8.3y

85/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 8.3 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile
address, 2 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
3 officers (3 active, 3 linked, 2 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
4 connected companies via shared directors
57
Filing history
68 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
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.

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£0Oct 2024Oct 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-10-312024-10-31
Average employees300200

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (22 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-02-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-01-08
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  3. 2024-12-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2024-06-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2023-06-07
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  6. 2023-06-07
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  7. 2023-06-07
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  8. 2023-01-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2022-01-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2020-12-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2020-02-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2019-10-03
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  13. 2019-07-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2019-06-26
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    mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
    mortgage · MR04
  15. 2019-06-26
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    Charge satisfied #1
  16. 2018-04-24
    ➕
    DEAN, Lucy appointed
    director
  17. 2018-04-24
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  18. 2018-04-12
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  19. 2018-01-15
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Close Brothers Limited (The “Security Trustee”)
  20. 2004-05-10
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    Company incorporated
    As ADHESIVE SOLUTIONS LIMITED
  21. 2004-05-10
    ➕
    DEAN, Lucy appointed
    secretary
  22. 2004-05-10
    ➕
    DEAN, Michael Stephen appointed
    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 61 — 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 61. 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
Mr Michael Stephen Dean
Individual · British · DOB 01/1965 · age 61
50–75%
—50-75% shares01/04/2017
Mrs Lucy Dean
Individual · British · DOB 06/1972 · age 54
25–50%
—25-50% shares08/01/2025

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
Incorporated2004-05-10
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC46690 — Wholesale of other machinery and equipment

Registered office

York House
Cottingley Business Park
Bingley
BD16 1PE
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-07-31
Last made up to: 2025-10-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-05-12
Last: 2026-04-28

Officers (3 active · 0 resigned)

DEAN, Lucy→
secretary · appointed 2004-05-10
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Active
DEAN, Lucy→
director · ~54y · appointed 2018-04-24
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Active
DEAN, Michael Stephen→
director · ~61y · appointed 2004-05-10
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Active

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
0
Outstanding
0
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
satisfied
Close Brothers
Close Brothers Limited (The “Security Trustee”)
A registered charge—15/01/201826/06/2019

Recent filings (68 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-02-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-05-17
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2025-01-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-06-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-05-10
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-06-07
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-06-07
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-06-07
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-05-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-01-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-05-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-01-04
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-05-17