SPYRA-BASE HARDWARE LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

05314605 · ltd · incorporated 2004-12-16

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

hardening · 12-months

Already tight — no obvious softening catalysts on the horizon.

· Thesis: well-run, low negotiation leverage

🔒Estimated value

—

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Turnover

—

year to Oct 2025

Net worth

£100

book net assets

Opportunity

81/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 25990

Sector: Manufacturing

Investor take

Pursue

Asset-holding vehicle with a 60-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 60). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

11 officers (2 active, 11 linked, 7 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

2 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared

Director network

11 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

80 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

81/100Exceptional

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

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared

Positive net assets

Net assets £100

Cash YoY

+0%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£100

~ YoY

Net Worth

£100

~ YoY

Current Assets

£200

~ YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-10-31	2024-10-31
Total assets	£100	£100
Current assets	£200	£200
Cash	£100	£100
Net assets	£100	£100

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

filings

• 2 persons-with-significant-control

Last 90 days

filings

• 2 persons-with-significant-control

Last 180 days

filings

• 2 persons-with-significant-control
• 1 accounts
• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (36 events)Click to expand

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2023-07-27
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2019-07-29
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2018-07-28
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2017-08-15
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2016-07-26
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2016-01-13
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2011-05-27
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PERRY, Richard Willisford appointed
director
2011-05-27
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STANLEY, Philip Michael appointed
director
2011-05-27
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POWELL, Angela Jade resigned
director
2011-05-27
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POWELL, Brent Kirk resigned
director
2011-05-27
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POWELL, Michael John resigned
director
2010-10-04
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PERRY, Richard Willisford resigned
secretary
2010-10-04
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PERRY, Richard Willisford resigned
director
2010-10-04
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STANLEY, Philip Michael resigned
director
2008-08-08
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PERRY, Richard Willisford appointed
secretary
2008-08-08
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POWELL, Janet Christine resigned
secretary
2008-08-08
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PERRY, Richard Willisford appointed
director
2008-08-08
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STANLEY, Philip Michael appointed
director
2004-12-16
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Company incorporated
As SPYRA-BASE HARDWARE LIMITED
2004-12-16
➕
POWELL, Janet Christine appointed
secretary
2004-12-16
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WATERLOW SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
2004-12-16
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WATERLOW SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
2004-12-16
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POWELL, Angela Jade appointed
director
2004-12-16
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POWELL, Brent Kirk appointed
director
2004-12-16
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POWELL, Michael John appointed
director
2004-12-16
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WATERLOW NOMINEES LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-director
2004-12-16
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WATERLOW NOMINEES LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

76/100

High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS

+Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 15 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Senior director age: Director aged approximately 60 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

69/100

Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS

secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 60. Early succession window.
secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 15 years.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 21 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

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Philip Michael Stanley Individual · British · DOB 03/1969 · age 57	25–50%	—	25-50% shares	06/04/2016
Mr Richard Willisford Perry Individual · British · DOB 05/1966 · age 60	25–50%	25–50%	board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control	06/04/2016

1 historic (ceased) PSC

Mr Richard Perryceased 06/04/2016· 25-50% shares

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

🔒Co-director network graph

Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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🔒Tailored diligence questions

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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Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2004-12-16

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC25990 — SIC 25990

Registered office

3 Malthouse Road

Tipton

West Midlands

DY4 9AE

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-07-31

Last made up to: 2025-10-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-12-30

Last: 2025-12-16

Officers (2 active · 9 resigned)

PERRY, Richard Willisford→

director · ~60y · appointed 2011-05-27

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Active

STANLEY, Philip Michael→

director · ~57y · appointed 2011-05-27

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Active

PERRY, Richard Willisford→

secretary · appointed 2008-08-08 · resigned 2010-10-04

Resigned

POWELL, Janet Christine→

secretary · appointed 2004-12-16 · resigned 2008-08-08

Resigned

WATERLOW SECRETARIES LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2004-12-16 · resigned 2004-12-16

Resigned

PERRY, Richard Willisford→

director · ~60y · appointed 2008-08-08 · resigned 2010-10-04

Resigned

POWELL, Angela Jade→

director · ~62y · appointed 2004-12-16 · resigned 2011-05-27

Resigned

POWELL, Brent Kirk→

director · ~59y · appointed 2004-12-16 · resigned 2011-05-27

Resigned

POWELL, Michael John→

director · ~86y · appointed 2004-12-16 · resigned 2011-05-27

Resigned

STANLEY, Philip Michael→

director · ~57y · appointed 2008-08-08 · resigned 2010-10-04

Resigned

WATERLOW NOMINEES LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2004-12-16 · resigned 2004-12-16

Resigned

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Recent filings (80 total)

notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control

persons-with-significant-control · PSC01

2026-05-06

cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control

persons-with-significant-control · PSC07

2026-05-06

accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant

accounts · AA

2026-01-27