AMBER & PEARL LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
05476934 · ltd · incorporated 2005-06-09
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.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Jun 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Artistic creation
Sector: Arts, entertainment & recreation
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 75-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 75). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (76/100)

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)
78
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
49 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
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
90
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£0Jun 2024Jun 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-06-302024-06-30
Average employees00

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
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filings
Last 90 days
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Last 180 days
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Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-12-02
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  3. 2025-03-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-12-13
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2023-03-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2022-03-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2021-03-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2020-03-24
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    accounts · AA
  9. 2019-01-11
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    accounts · AA
  10. 2017-12-13
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    accounts · AA
  11. 2017-01-11
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    accounts · AA
  12. 2016-02-03
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    accounts · AA
  13. 2015-09-18
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    annual-return · AR01
  14. 2015-03-31
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    accounts · AA
  15. 2014-09-18
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    annual-return · AR01
  16. 2005-06-09
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    Company incorporated
    As AMBER & PEARL LIMITED
  17. 2005-06-09
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    PEARL, David Lawrence appointed
    secretary
  18. 2005-06-09
    ➕
    HISCOTT, Ann Elizabeth appointed
    director
  19. 2005-06-09
    ➕
    PEARL, David Lawrence appointed
    director
  20. 2005-06-09
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    HARRISON, Irene Lesley appointed
    secretary
  21. 2005-06-09
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    HARRISON, Irene Lesley resigned
    secretary
  22. 2005-06-09
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    BUSINESS INFORMATION RESEARCH & REPORTING LTD appointed
    corporate-director
  23. 2005-06-09
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    BUSINESS INFORMATION RESEARCH & REPORTING LTD resigned
    corporate-director

Owner dependency

98/100
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.
  • +Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "PEARL" — strong identity link between founder and business.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 21 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 75 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

96/100
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 75 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • 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

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mrs Ann Elizabeth Pearl
Individual · British · DOB 01/1951 · age 75
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/09/2016
Mr David Lawrence Pearl
Individual · British · DOB 10/1952 · age 74
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/09/2016

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
Incorporated2005-06-09
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC90030 — Artistic creation

Registered office

1 Greenfield Terrace
Sketty
Swansea
SA2 9BS

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-03-31
Last made up to: 2025-06-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-09-20
Last: 2025-09-06

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

PEARL, David Lawrence→
secretary · appointed 2005-06-09
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Active
HISCOTT, Ann Elizabeth→
director · ~75y · appointed 2005-06-09
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Active
PEARL, David Lawrence→
director · ~74y · appointed 2005-06-09
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HARRISON, Irene Lesley→
secretary · appointed 2005-06-09 · resigned 2005-06-09
Resigned
BUSINESS INFORMATION RESEARCH & REPORTING LTD→
corporate-director · appointed 2005-06-09 · resigned 2005-06-09
Resigned

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Recent filings (49 total)

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accounts · AA
2025-12-09
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-12-02
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-10-16
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accounts · AA
2025-03-25
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-09-18
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accounts · AA
2023-12-13
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-09-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-03-15
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-09-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-03-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-09-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-03-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-09-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-03-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-09-09