AREA I.T. CONSULTANTS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
05560790 · ltd · incorporated 2005-09-12
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 Sept 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Information technology consultancy activities
Sector: Information & communication
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 65-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 65). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (73/100).

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 3 with DOB)
82
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
61 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£0Sept 2024Sept 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-09-302024-09-30
Average employees200200

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

2 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
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-04-09
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  2. 2025-10-23
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    officers · CH03
  3. 2025-01-31
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    accounts · AA
  4. 2024-04-30
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    accounts · AA
  5. 2024-01-24
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  6. 2024-01-24
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  7. 2024-01-24
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    change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH03
  8. 2024-01-24
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  9. 2024-01-24
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  10. 2023-06-21
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    accounts · AA
  11. 2022-06-30
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    accounts · AA
  12. 2021-08-27
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  13. 2021-07-05
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    accounts · AA01
  14. 2020-09-22
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    accounts · AA
  15. 2019-08-06
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    accounts · AA
  16. 2018-08-03
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  17. 2005-12-04
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    ARMSTRONG, Elaine appointed
    secretary
  18. 2005-12-04
    ➕
    ARMSTRONG, Andrew Robert appointed
    director
  19. 2005-12-04
    ➕
    ARMSTRONG, Elaine appointed
    director
  20. 2005-12-04
    ➖
    TEICHMAN, Dawn resigned
    secretary
  21. 2005-12-04
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    SHARKEY, Kenneth resigned
    director
  22. 2005-09-12
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    Company incorporated
    As AREA I.T. CONSULTANTS LIMITED
  23. 2005-09-12
    ➕
    TEICHMAN, Dawn appointed
    secretary
  24. 2005-09-12
    ➕
    SHARKEY, Kenneth appointed
    director

Owner dependency

91/100
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 65 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

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 65. 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

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Andrew Robert Armstrong
Individual · British · DOB 09/1971 · age 55
25–50%
25–50%board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control06/04/2016
Mrs Elaine Armstrong
Individual · British · DOB 08/1961 · age 65
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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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
Incorporated2005-09-12
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC62020 — Information technology consultancy activities

Registered office

4 High Street
Stanley
County Durham
DH9 0DQ

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-06-30
Last made up to: 2025-09-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-09-26
Last: 2025-09-12

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

ARMSTRONG, Elaine→
secretary · appointed 2005-12-04
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
ARMSTRONG, Andrew Robert→
director · ~55y · appointed 2005-12-04
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
ARMSTRONG, Elaine→
director · ~65y · appointed 2005-12-04
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
TEICHMAN, Dawn→
secretary · appointed 2005-09-12 · resigned 2005-12-04
Resigned
SHARKEY, Kenneth→
director · ~72y · appointed 2005-09-12 · resigned 2005-12-04
Resigned

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Recent filings (61 total)

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accounts · AA
2026-04-09
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2025-10-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-09-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-01-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-09-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-04-30
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-01-24
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-01-24
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2024-01-24
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2024-01-24
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2024-01-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-09-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-06-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-09-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-06-30