ARBOUR SAFETY MANAGEMENT LTD

🌳Matureactive
05553063 · ltd · incorporated 2005-09-02
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
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year to Sept 2025
Net worth
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Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Engineering related scientific and technical consulting activities
Sector: Professional, scientific & technical
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 62-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 62). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (69/100)

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
1 year of iXBRL accounts extracted (no YoY comparison) + narrative notes parsed
50
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
3 officers (3 active, 3 linked, 2 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
44 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

1 year 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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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-09-30
Average employees2

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
3
filings
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 persons-with-significant-control
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (18 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-03-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  2. 2026-03-24
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  3. 2025-01-17
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    accounts-amended-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AAMD
  4. 2025-01-07
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  5. 2024-01-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  6. 2023-06-02
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2022-03-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2021-06-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  9. 2020-01-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2019-01-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  11. 2017-12-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  12. 2017-04-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  13. 2016-04-08
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  14. 2015-09-17
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    annual-return · AR01
  15. 2005-09-02
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    Company incorporated
    As ARBOUR SAFETY MANAGEMENT LTD
  16. 2005-09-02
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    ROWE, Glenn Dudley appointed
    secretary
  17. 2005-09-02
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    ROWE, Glenn Dudley appointed
    director
  18. 2005-09-02
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    ROWE, Lesley Sharon appointed
    director

Owner dependency

84/100
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.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 62 — approaching natural succession window.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

76/100
Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS
  • secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 62. Early succession window.
  • 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 Lesley Sharon Rowe
Individual · British · DOB 10/1965 · age 61
50–75%
50–75%board control50-75% shares · 50-75% voting · board control06/04/2016
Mr Glenn Dudley Rowe
Individual · British · DOB 01/1964 · age 62
25–50%
25–50%board control25-50% shares · 25-50% 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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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2005-09-02
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC71122 — Engineering related scientific and technical consulting activities

Registered office

41 Bridgeman Terrace
Wigan
Lancashire
WN1 1TT

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-06-30
Last made up to: 2025-09-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-07
Last: 2026-03-24

Officers (3 active · 0 resigned)

ROWE, Glenn Dudley→
secretary · appointed 2005-09-02
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ROWE, Glenn Dudley→
director · ~62y · appointed 2005-09-02
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ROWE, Lesley Sharon→
director · ~61y · appointed 2005-09-02
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Recent filings (44 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2026-03-25
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-24
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2026-03-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-10-13
accounts-amended-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AAMD
2025-01-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-01-07
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-10-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-01-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-11-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-06-02
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-10-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-03-11
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-10-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-06-29
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-10-12