APTEC PRODUCTS LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
05841147 · ltd · incorporated 2006-06-08
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 19.7y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Dec 2025
Net worth
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Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 20600
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 81-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (73/100, director aged 81). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).
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Refinance opportunity
2 live charges · oldest 19.7y
85/100
ready
Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.
- · Oldest live charge is 19.7 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
- · Legal-friction score 15/100 — 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
9 officers (4 active, 9 linked, 6 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
13 connected companies via shared directors
84
Filing history
73 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
83/100Exceptional
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
85
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
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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 · FRS 102| Metric | 2025-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Average employees | 27 | 2700 |
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.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
2
filings
- • 1 confirmation-statement
- • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (35 events)Click to expand
- 2026-04-16📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2026-01-06📄capital-cancellation-sharescapital · SH06
- 2026-01-06📄capital-return-purchase-own-sharescapital · SH03
- 2025-06-12📄capital-allotment-sharescapital · SH01
- 2025-05-27📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-08-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-06-10📄capital-allotment-sharescapital · SH01
- 2023-12-04📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2023-12-04📄termination-director-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM01
- 2023-10-31➖HODGSON, Ian resigneddirector
- 2023-07-01➕RAINE, Matthew David appointeddirector
- 2023-05-18📄accounts-with-accounts-type-smallaccounts · AA
- 2022-06-20📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2022-05-10📄accounts-with-accounts-type-smallaccounts · AA
- 2022-03-17📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2021-04-19📄accounts-with-accounts-type-smallaccounts · AA
- 2020-06-08📄accounts-with-accounts-type-smallaccounts · AA
- 2019-04-03📄accounts-with-accounts-type-smallaccounts · AA
- 2017-05-22🔓Charge satisfied #1
- 2017-05-18🔓Charge satisfied #2
- 2013-05-09➖MITTEN, David Ronald resigneddirector
- 2010-12-13➕HODGSON, Ian appointeddirector
- 2010-12-13➕MITTEN, David Ronald appointeddirector
- 2009-09-15➖ROBOTHAM, Trevor resigneddirector
- 2006-10-27🔒Charge registered #2Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
- 2006-10-27🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
- 2006-09-28➕WALKER, David Anthony appointedsecretary
- 2006-09-28➕PERKINS, Roy Stewart appointeddirector
- 2006-09-28➖DOWNEY, Kathryn Ann resignedsecretary
- 2006-09-28➕ROBOTHAM, Trevor appointeddirector
- 2006-06-08🏢Company incorporatedAs APTEC PRODUCTS LIMITED
- 2006-06-08➕WALKER, David Anthony appointeddirector
- 2006-06-08➕DOWNEY, Kathryn Ann appointedsecretary
- 2006-06-08➕CHETTLEBURGHS SECRETARIAL LTD appointedcorporate-nominee-secretary
- 2006-06-08➖CHETTLEBURGHS SECRETARIAL LTD resignedcorporate-nominee-secretary
Owner dependency
75/100
High — earn-out structure requiredMaterial founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.
FACTORS
- +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 20 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 81 — succession pressure is live.
Succession & seller-readiness
90/100
Likely off-market candidateStrong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 81 years old. Natural succession window is now.
- primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 20 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 20 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
cleanNo 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| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
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Mr David Anthony Walker Individual · British · DOB 03/1945 · age 81 | 25–50% | — | 25-50% shares | 06/04/2016 |
Mr Roy Stewart Perkins Individual · British · DOB 10/1951 · age 75 | 25–50% | — | 25-50% shares | 06/04/2016 |
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
🔒Co-director network graph
Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.
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| A.R.JOLLY LIMITED→ 00539975 · est 1954 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 71y | — | — |
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Peers ranked by estimated value, then turnover, then opportunity score.See all →
🔒Tailored diligence questions
7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
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Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2006-06-08
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC20600 — SIC 20600
Registered office
Aptec Enterprise Park
Darlington Road
West Auckland
Co Durham
DL14 9PD
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2027-09-30
Last made up to: 2025-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-06-22
Last: 2026-06-08
Officers (4 active · 5 resigned)
WALKER, David Anthony→
Activesecretary · appointed 2006-09-28
View their other companies + combined net worth →
PERKINS, Roy Stewart→
Activedirector · ~75y · appointed 2006-09-28
View their other companies + combined net worth →
RAINE, Matthew David→
Activedirector · ~31y · appointed 2023-07-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
WALKER, David Anthony→
Activedirector · ~81y · appointed 2006-06-08
View their other companies + combined net worth →
DOWNEY, Kathryn Ann→
Resignedsecretary · appointed 2006-06-08 · resigned 2006-09-28
CHETTLEBURGHS SECRETARIAL LTD→
Resignedcorporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2006-06-08 · resigned 2006-06-08
HODGSON, Ian→
Resigneddirector · ~76y · appointed 2010-12-13 · resigned 2023-10-31
MITTEN, David Ronald→
Resigneddirector · ~51y · appointed 2010-12-13 · resigned 2013-05-09
ROBOTHAM, Trevor→
Resigneddirector · ~93y · appointed 2006-09-28 · resigned 2009-09-15
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Mortgages & charges
2
Total charges
0
Outstanding
0
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| satisfied | Barclays Barclays Bank PLC | Debenture | 1 property | 27/10/2006 | 18/05/2017 | |
| satisfied | Barclays Barclays Bank PLC | Legal charge | 1 property | 27/10/2006 | 22/05/2017 |
Recent filings (73 total)
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-06-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-04-16
capital-cancellation-shares
capital · SH06
2026-01-06
capital-return-purchase-own-shares
capital · SH03
2026-01-06
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-06-12
capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2025-06-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-05-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-08-30
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-06-13
capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2024-06-10
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2023-12-04
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2023-12-04
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-06-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2023-05-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-06-20