ACQSYS SUPPLY CHAIN SOLUTIONS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
05530980 · ltd · incorporated 2005-08-08
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 3.5y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Sept 2025
Net worth
£1.23M
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Management consultancy activities other than financial management
Sector: Professional, scientific & technical
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 70-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 70). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · oldest 3.5y

75/100
ready

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

  • · Charge age ~3.5 years — mid-life; refi window approaching.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 20/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (83/100)

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
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
20 officers (2 active, 20 linked, 16 with DOB)
86
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
13 connected companies via shared directors
84
Filing history
116 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
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
Positive net assets
Net assets £1,231,013
Cash YoY
+224%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£333k
↑ 224% YoY
Net Worth
£1.2m
↑ 4.0% YoY
Current Assets
£1.0m
↑ 6.5% YoY
Current Liabilities
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£0£246k£492k£739k£985k£1.2mSept 2024Sept 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-09-302024-09-30
Total assets£1.29M£1.28M
Current assets£1.02M£958.0k
Cash£333.3k£102.8k
Debtors£686.8k£855.3k
Net assets£1.23M£1.18M

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
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (57 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-03-28
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  2. 2025-03-25
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  3. 2024-03-11
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  4. 2023-03-08
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  5. 2023-02-15
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  6. 2023-02-15
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Asset Advantage Limited
  7. 2022-11-30
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  8. 2022-11-29
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Asset Advantage Limited
  9. 2022-02-16
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  10. 2021-01-11
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  11. 2020-06-23
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    INSIGHT NOMINEES LTD resigned
    corporate-secretary
  12. 2020-06-23
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    officers · TM02
  13. 2020-06-23
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    address · AD01
  14. 2020-02-27
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  15. 2019-02-27
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  16. 2018-01-27
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  17. 2017-01-18
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  18. 2016-06-29
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  19. 2016-01-22
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    resolution
    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  20. 2014-09-01
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    TAYLOR, Paul resigned
    director
  21. 2012-02-01
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    TAYLOR, Paul appointed
    director
  22. 2009-12-01
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    WILLIAMS, Graham Richard appointed
    director
  23. 2009-12-01
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    BRYAN, Nicholas George resigned
    secretary
  24. 2009-12-01
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    INSIGHT NOMINEES LTD appointed
    corporate-secretary
  25. 2009-12-01
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    BRYAN, Nicholas George resigned
    director
  26. 2009-12-01
    ➖
    DOYLE, Alan Frederick resigned
    director
  27. 2009-12-01
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    SHIPARD, Darren Andrew resigned
    director
  28. 2009-11-30
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    WITHERS, Gavin David resigned
    director
  29. 2009-11-30
    ➖
    WORTH, Frederick Edward resigned
    director
  30. 2009-08-09
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    BRYAN, Nicholas George appointed
    director
  31. 2009-05-13
    ➕
    HOWIE, William appointed
    director
  32. 2008-12-18
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    SHIPARD, Darren Andrew appointed
    director
  33. 2008-11-18
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    ROBINSON, Ian resigned
    director
  34. 2008-11-18
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    TANTY, Laurence Jacqueline resigned
    director
  35. 2008-04-28
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    ROBINSON, Ian appointed
    director
  36. 2008-04-28
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    TENTORI, Mark Ian resigned
    director
  37. 2007-08-15
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    TANTY, Laurence Jacqueline appointed
    director
  38. 2007-08-15
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    TENTORI, Mark Ian appointed
    director
  39. 2007-08-02
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    MILLER, Graham Douglas Naismith resigned
    director
  40. 2007-08-02
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    SHIPARD, Darren resigned
    director
  41. 2007-08-02
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    WORTH, Frederick Edward appointed
    director
  42. 2007-04-20
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    BRYAN, Nicholas George resigned
    director
  43. 2006-06-21
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    DOYLE, Alan Frederick appointed
    director
  44. 2006-06-21
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    WITHERS, Gavin David appointed
    director
  45. 2005-12-19
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    MILLER, Graham Douglas Naismith appointed
    director
  46. 2005-09-26
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    BURT, Christopher Henry resigned
    director
  47. 2005-09-24
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    BRYAN, Nicholas George appointed
    director
  48. 2005-09-24
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    SHIPARD, Darren appointed
    director
  49. 2005-09-23
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    BRYAN, Nicholas George appointed
    secretary
  50. 2005-09-23
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    MS BATH SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-secretary
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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 17 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 70 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

89/100
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 70 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 17 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.)

Group structure

Acqsys Supply Chain Holdings Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Acqsys Supply Chain Holdings Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares
ultimate parent
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ACQSYS SUPPLY CHAIN SOLUTIONS LIMITED
This company · 05530980

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%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Acqsys Supply Chain Holdings Limited
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%75-100% shares · 75-100% voting06/04/2016

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
Incorporated2005-08-08
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC70229 — Management consultancy activities other than financial management

Registered office

Unit 41 Wildmoor Mill
Wildmoor
Bromsgrove
B61 0BX
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-06-30
Last made up to: 2025-09-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-07-07
Last: 2025-06-23

Officers (2 active · 18 resigned)

HOWIE, William→
director · ~70y · appointed 2009-05-13
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
WILLIAMS, Graham Richard→
director · ~67y · appointed 2009-12-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BRYAN, Nicholas George→
secretary · appointed 2005-09-23 · resigned 2009-12-01
Resigned
WAYNE, Harold→
nominee-secretary · appointed 2005-08-08 · resigned 2005-08-08
Resigned
INSIGHT NOMINEES LTD→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2009-12-01 · resigned 2020-06-23
Resigned
MS BATH SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2005-08-08 · resigned 2005-09-23
Resigned
BRYAN, Nicholas George→
director · ~62y · appointed 2009-08-09 · resigned 2009-12-01
Resigned
BRYAN, Nicholas George→
director · ~62y · appointed 2005-09-24 · resigned 2007-04-20
Resigned
BURT, Christopher Henry→
director · ~92y · appointed 2005-08-08 · resigned 2005-09-26
Resigned
DOYLE, Alan Frederick→
director · ~76y · appointed 2006-06-21 · resigned 2009-12-01
Resigned
MILLER, Graham Douglas Naismith→
director · ~79y · appointed 2005-12-19 · resigned 2007-08-02
Resigned
ROBINSON, Ian→
director · ~62y · appointed 2008-04-28 · resigned 2008-11-18
Resigned
SHIPARD, Darren Andrew→
director · ~60y · appointed 2008-12-18 · resigned 2009-12-01
Resigned
SHIPARD, Darren→
director · ~60y · appointed 2005-09-24 · resigned 2007-08-02
Resigned
TANTY, Laurence Jacqueline→
director · ~71y · appointed 2007-08-15 · resigned 2008-11-18
Resigned
TAYLOR, Paul→
director · ~49y · appointed 2012-02-01 · resigned 2014-09-01
Resigned
TENTORI, Mark Ian→
director · ~63y · appointed 2007-08-15 · resigned 2008-04-28
Resigned
WAYNE, Yvonne→
nominee-director · ~46y · appointed 2005-08-08 · resigned 2005-08-08
Resigned
WITHERS, Gavin David→
director · ~61y · appointed 2006-06-21 · resigned 2009-11-30
Resigned
WORTH, Frederick Edward→
director · ~81y · appointed 2007-08-02 · resigned 2009-11-30
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
2
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Asset Advantage
Asset Advantage Limited
A registered charge—15/02/2023—
outstanding
Asset Advantage
Asset Advantage Limited
A registered charge—29/11/2022—
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Recent filings (116 total)

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accounts · AA
2026-03-28
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-07-02
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accounts · AA
2025-03-25
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-06-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-03-11
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-06-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-03-08
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mortgage · MR01
2023-02-15
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2022-11-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-06-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-02-16
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-06-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-01-11
termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2020-06-23
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2020-06-23