AIRECARE LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
05950474 · ltd · incorporated 2006-09-29
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 Oct 2024
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Plumbing, heat and air-conditioning installation
Sector: Construction
Investor take
PursueActive 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: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).
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
6 officers (3 active, 6 linked, 3 with DOB)
80
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
64 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 accountsCash
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Net Worth
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Current Liabilities
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102| Metric | 2024-10-31 | 2023-10-31 |
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| Average employees | 600 | 500 |
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
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Last 90 days
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Last 180 days
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Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (29 events)Click to expand
- 2025-01-31📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-07-26📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-10-10📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2023-10-09📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2023-10-09📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC01
- 2023-10-09📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2023-07-27📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-12-05📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2022-12-05📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2022-12-05📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2022-05-17📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-12-22📄gazette-filings-brought-up-to-dategazette · DISS40
- 2021-12-21📄gazette-notice-compulsorygazette · GAZ1
- 2021-10-05📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2021-07-26📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2021-07-26📄change-person-secretary-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH03
- 2021-05-27📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-11-18📄termination-director-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM01
- 2020-11-13➖WARBOYS, David Michael resigneddirector
- 2020-02-11📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2017-10-31➕ELLIS, Atina Lucia appointeddirector
- 2017-10-31➕WARBOYS, David Michael appointeddirector
- 2006-09-29🏢Company incorporatedAs AIRECARE LIMITED
- 2006-09-29➕ELLIS, Atina Lucia appointedsecretary
- 2006-09-29➕ELLIS, Robert John appointeddirector
- 2006-09-29➕TEMPLE SECRETARIES LIMITED appointedcorporate-nominee-secretary
- 2006-09-29➖TEMPLE SECRETARIES LIMITED resignedcorporate-nominee-secretary
- 2006-09-29➕COMPANY DIRECTORS LIMITED appointedcorporate-nominee-director
- 2006-09-29➖COMPANY DIRECTORS LIMITED resignedcorporate-nominee-director
Owner dependency
91/100
Critical — business is the founderThe 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 20 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
79/100
Likely off-market candidateStrong 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.
- secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 20 years.
- 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 Robert John Ellis Individual · British · DOB 02/1961 · age 65 | 50–75% | 50–75% | board control50-75% shares · 50-75% voting · board control | 01/09/2016 |
Mrs Atina Lucia Ellis Individual · British · DOB 01/1988 · age 38 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 31/10/2017 |
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.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
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| A-LINE OCEANA LIMITED→ 03921503 · est 2000 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 26y | — | — |
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| AJJ ELECTRICAL LTD→ 12367137 · est 2019 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 6y | — | — |
| AJR DESIGN AND INSTALLATION LTD→ 14577442 · est 2023 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 3y | — | — |
| AK17 CONSTRUCTION LTD→ 16494221 · est 2025 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
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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.
See pricing →🔒Advanced scoring suite
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
Incorporated2006-09-29
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC43220 — Plumbing, heat and air-conditioning installation
Registered office
Camburgh House
27 New Dover Road
Canterbury
Kent
CT1 3DN
United Kingdom
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-07-31
Last made up to: 2024-10-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-10-13
Last: 2025-09-29
Officers (3 active · 3 resigned)
ELLIS, Atina Lucia→
Activesecretary · appointed 2006-09-29
View their other companies + combined net worth →
ELLIS, Atina Lucia→
Activedirector · ~38y · appointed 2017-10-31
View their other companies + combined net worth →
ELLIS, Robert John→
Activedirector · ~65y · appointed 2006-09-29
View their other companies + combined net worth →
TEMPLE SECRETARIES LIMITED→
Resignedcorporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2006-09-29 · resigned 2006-09-29
WARBOYS, David Michael→
Resigneddirector · ~49y · appointed 2017-10-31 · resigned 2020-11-13
COMPANY DIRECTORS LIMITED→
Resignedcorporate-nominee-director · appointed 2006-09-29 · resigned 2006-09-29
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Recent filings (64 total)
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-10-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-01-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-11-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-07-26
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-10-10
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-10-09
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2023-10-09
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-10-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-10-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-07-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-12-06
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-12-05
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-12-05
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2022-12-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-05-17