A1 ALLOYS LTD

🌳Matureactive
05396202 · ltd · incorporated 2005-03-17
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 6.5y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£464.9k
book net assets
Opportunity
78/100
Strong
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 45200
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
Pursue
Strong opportunity: asset-holding vehicle with strong profile and bankable structure.

Opportunity 78/100 (strong), bankability 85/100. High owner-dependency — earn-out structure likely required for clean transition. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (58/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 6.5y

85/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 6.5 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
7 officers (2 active, 7 linked, 3 with DOB)
79
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
68 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
78/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.

Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
65
Some acquirability indicators.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102
Positive net assets
Net assets £464,866
Cash YoY
+19%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£41k
↑ 19% YoY
Net Worth
£465k
↑ 51% YoY
Current Assets
£87k
↓ 60% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
£0£93k£186k£279k£372k£465kMar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Total assets£483.1k£316.5k
Current assets£87.0k£216.1k
Cash£40.6k£34.1k
Debtors£46.3k£182.0k
Net assets£464.9k£308.0k

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

3 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
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 address
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 address
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (32 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-03-23
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  2. 2025-07-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-09-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2024-04-15
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  5. 2024-04-01
    ➕
    ROSE, Kelly appointed
    director
  6. 2023-07-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2022-08-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2021-12-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2021-11-24
    📄
    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  10. 2021-11-24
    📄
    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  11. 2021-09-23
    📄
    mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
    mortgage · MR04
  12. 2021-09-23
    🔓
    Charge satisfied #1
  13. 2021-04-30
    📍
    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  14. 2020-07-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  15. 2019-11-19
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  16. 2019-11-14
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Barclays Security Trustee Limited
  17. 2019-10-22
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  18. 2019-07-25
    📄
    termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM02
  19. 2018-06-29
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  20. 2018-01-04
    📄
    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  21. 2011-07-31
    ➖
    TATE, Justine resigned
    secretary
  22. 2011-07-31
    ➖
    TATE, Justine resigned
    secretary
  23. 2011-07-31
    ➖
    EATON, Lee resigned
    director
  24. 2010-06-28
    ➕
    EATON, Lee appointed
    director
  25. 2005-03-21
    ➕
    TATE, Lee appointed
    director
  26. 2005-03-21
    ➕
    TATE, Justine appointed
    secretary
  27. 2005-03-21
    ➖
    @UKPLC CLIENT SECRETARY LTD resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  28. 2005-03-21
    ➖
    @UKPLC CLIENT DIRECTOR LTD resigned
    corporate-nominee-director
  29. 2005-03-17
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As A1 ALLOYS LTD
  30. 2005-03-17
    ➕
    TATE, Justine appointed
    secretary
  31. 2005-03-17
    ➕
    @UKPLC CLIENT SECRETARY LTD appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  32. 2005-03-17
    ➕
    @UKPLC CLIENT DIRECTOR LTD appointed
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

68/100
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 21 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.

Succession & seller-readiness

56/100
Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • 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.)

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Lee Tate
Individual · British · DOB 12/1980 · age 46
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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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
Incorporated2005-03-17
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC45200 — SIC 45200

Registered office

Suite B, Kestrel House
146/148 Main Road
Biggin Hill
Kent
TN16 3BA
United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-09-22
Last: 2025-09-08

Officers (2 active · 5 resigned)

ROSE, Kelly→
director · ~45y · appointed 2024-04-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
TATE, Lee→
director · ~46y · appointed 2005-03-21
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
TATE, Justine→
secretary · appointed 2005-03-21 · resigned 2011-07-31
Resigned
TATE, Justine→
secretary · appointed 2005-03-17 · resigned 2011-07-31
Resigned
@UKPLC CLIENT SECRETARY LTD→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2005-03-17 · resigned 2005-03-21
Resigned
EATON, Lee→
director · ~52y · appointed 2010-06-28 · resigned 2011-07-31
Resigned
@UKPLC CLIENT DIRECTOR LTD→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2005-03-17 · resigned 2005-03-21
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
0
Outstanding
0
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
satisfied
Barclays
Barclays Security Trustee Limited
A registered charge—14/11/201923/09/2021

Recent filings (68 total)

change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2026-03-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-09-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-07-25
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-09-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-09-04
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2024-04-15
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-09-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-07-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-09-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-08-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-12-15
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2021-11-24
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2021-11-24
mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2021-09-23
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-09-09