ABCO SEALS HOLDINGS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
05423342 · ltd · incorporated 2005-04-13
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 21.0y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Jun 2025
Net worth
—
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Activities of head offices
Sector: Professional, scientific & technical
Investor take
Pursue
Conservative operator with a 66-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 66). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (78/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 21.0y

95/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 21.0 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.
  • · Profitable and stable/growing — lender coverage supportable.

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
75
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
7 officers (3 active, 7 linked, 4 with DOB)
81
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
7 connected companies via shared directors
66
Filing history
77 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102
Profitable
Profit before tax £652,791

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£0Jun 2024Jun 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-06-302024-06-30
Profit before tax£652.8k—
Average employees54—

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 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (29 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-group
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-11-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-group
    accounts · AA
  3. 2023-12-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-group
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-03-21
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    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-03-14
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    mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
    mortgage · MR04
  6. 2022-03-14
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    Charge satisfied #1
  7. 2022-01-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-group
    accounts · AA
  8. 2021-09-08
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    capital-cancellation-shares
    capital · SH06
  9. 2021-09-08
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    capital-return-purchase-own-shares
    capital · SH03
  10. 2021-07-23
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  11. 2021-07-21
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    THOMPSON, Paul resigned
    director
  12. 2021-03-02
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-group
    accounts · AA
  13. 2020-03-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-group
    accounts · AA
  14. 2019-02-06
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  15. 2018-03-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  16. 2017-03-31
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    accounts · AA
  17. 2016-05-03
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    annual-return · AR01
  18. 2010-08-10
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    TRANTER, Robert Eric resigned
    director
  19. 2005-07-07
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  20. 2005-07-01
    ➕
    CRATCHLEY, Ian David appointed
    director
  21. 2005-07-01
    ➕
    THOMPSON, Paul appointed
    director
  22. 2005-07-01
    ➕
    TRANTER, Robert Eric appointed
    director
  23. 2005-05-23
    ➕
    HAWORTH, Alison Jean appointed
    secretary
  24. 2005-05-23
    ➕
    HAWORTH, Graham Michael appointed
    director
  25. 2005-05-23
    ➖
    IMCO SECRETARY LIMITED resigned
    corporate-secretary
  26. 2005-05-23
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    IMCO DIRECTOR LIMITED resigned
    corporate-director
  27. 2005-04-13
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    Company incorporated
    As ABCO SEALS HOLDINGS LIMITED
  28. 2005-04-13
    ➕
    IMCO SECRETARY LIMITED appointed
    corporate-secretary
  29. 2005-04-13
    ➕
    IMCO DIRECTOR LIMITED appointed
    corporate-director

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 21 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 66 — 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 66. 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 21 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • 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

1 active beneficial owner
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mrs Alison Jean Haworth
Individual · British · DOB 11/1962 · age 64
50–75%
—50-75% shares07/04/2016

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

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7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2005-04-13
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC70100 — Activities of head offices

Registered office

Green Road
Penistone
Sheffield
South Yorkshire
S36 6PH

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-03-31
Last made up to: 2025-06-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-27
Last: 2026-04-13

Officers (3 active · 4 resigned)

HAWORTH, Alison Jean→
secretary · appointed 2005-05-23
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
CRATCHLEY, Ian David→
director · ~57y · appointed 2005-07-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HAWORTH, Graham Michael→
director · ~66y · appointed 2005-05-23
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
IMCO SECRETARY LIMITED→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2005-04-13 · resigned 2005-05-23
Resigned
THOMPSON, Paul→
director · ~71y · appointed 2005-07-01 · resigned 2021-07-21
Resigned
TRANTER, Robert Eric→
director · ~76y · appointed 2005-07-01 · resigned 2010-08-10
Resigned
IMCO DIRECTOR LIMITED→
corporate-director · appointed 2005-04-13 · resigned 2005-05-23
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
0
Outstanding
0
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
satisfied
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Debenture1 property07/07/200514/03/2022

Recent filings (77 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2025-12-04
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2024-11-01
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2023-12-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-04-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2023-03-21
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-04-13
mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2022-03-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2022-01-24
capital-cancellation-shares
capital · SH06
2021-09-08
capital-return-purchase-own-shares
capital · SH03
2021-09-08
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2021-07-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-04-13