AEROSOL SYSTEMS COMPANY LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

05303144 · ltd · incorporated 2004-12-02

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 18.5y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

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year to Dec 2024

Net worth

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book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 28990

Sector: Manufacturing

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 79-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 79). 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: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 18.5y

50/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 18.5 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.

Data confidence

Overall: high (81/100)

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

Company profile

address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)

Directors & officers

7 officers (7 active, 7 linked, 6 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 4 total, 4 with control declared

Director network

7 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

65 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

83/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

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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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2024-12-31	2023-12-31
Average employees	1900	1600

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

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (28 events)Click to expand

2025-06-11
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2025-05-16
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officers · AP01
2025-05-16
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officers · AP01
2025-05-12
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BOTHAM, Andrew John appointed
director
2025-05-12
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MULLER, Kyle Gareth appointed
director
2025-04-23
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capital · SH01
2024-08-21
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accounts · AA
2023-06-21
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accounts · AA
2022-06-29
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accounts · AA
2021-06-30
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accounts · AA
2021-02-12
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mortgage · MR01
2021-02-09
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Charge registered #2
Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
2020-05-12
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accounts · AA
2019-11-20
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2019-11-20
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2019-11-20
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2019-11-20
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2019-08-02
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2019-08-02
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2019-08-02
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2007-11-30
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Hsbc Bank PLC
2004-12-09
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JACKSON, Peter Howard James appointed
director
2004-12-02
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Company incorporated
As AEROSOL SYSTEMS COMPANY LIMITED
2004-12-02
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JACKSON, Alison appointed
secretary
2004-12-02
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COOPER, Andrew Martin appointed
director
2004-12-02
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COOPER, Stephen Mark appointed
director
2004-12-02
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WALTERS, Howard appointed
director

Owner dependency

73/100

High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS

-6 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 21 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 79 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

80/100

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 79 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 21 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
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

Bookham (Asc) Properties Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Bookham (Asc) Properties Limited

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares

ultimate parent

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AEROSOL SYSTEMS COMPANY LIMITED

This company · 05303144

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%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Bookham (Asc) Properties Limited Corporate entity	75–100%	75–100%	75-100% shares · 75-100% voting	27/09/2019

3 historic (ceased) PSCs

Mr Steve Cooperceased 27/09/2019· significant influence
Mr Andrew Cooperceased 27/09/2019· significant influence
Jackson Trading Company Plcceased 27/09/2019· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting

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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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2004-12-02

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC28990 — SIC 28990

Registered office

42-44 Norwood High St

London

SE27 9NR

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-09-30

Last made up to: 2024-12-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-12-16

Last: 2025-12-02