ASIAN SOURCING LINK UK LIMITED

📈Growthactive
05985054 · ltd · incorporated 2006-11-01
Investment thesis
Growth-phase business — story-led; valuation sensitive to momentum.
Why interesting: Trading is scaling; acquirers paying for trajectory get disproportionate leverage.
Why risky: Price often leads fundamentals; dependency on founder often high.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
£19.78M
year to Mar 2025
Net worth
—
book net assets
Opportunity
79/100
Strong
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What this business does
Primary activity: Agents involved in the sale of a variety of goods
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
Pursue
Leverage-led grower with a 60-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 79/100 (strong), bankability 57/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 60). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Consolidate lender relationships. 6 distinct lenders creates friction — refinance into single-lender structure for cleaner diligence. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (78/100).

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Refinance opportunity

8 live charges · 6 lenders · oldest 18.9y

45/100
clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

  • · Oldest live charge is 18.9 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · 6 lenders named — inter-creditor friction likely.
  • · Legal-friction score 35/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.
  • · Profitable and stable/growing — lender coverage supportable.

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
8 charges (8/8 with lender, 8/8 with type)
90
Directors & officers
6 officers (3 active, 6 linked, 2 with DOB)
77
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
61 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Opportunity Score
79/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.

Business quality
60
Adequate — check latest filings for context.
Acquirability
85
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
82
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102
Profitable
Profit before tax £841,639
Turnover YoY
+6%
Year on year

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£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Turnover£19.78M£18.71M
Gross profit£2.37M£2.64M
Operating profit£826.8k£817.5k
Profit before tax£841.6k£532.7k
Average employees46004200

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
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (33 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-03-25
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  2. 2024-10-23
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  3. 2024-03-29
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  4. 2023-05-18
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  5. 2022-03-23
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  6. 2021-06-14
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  7. 2020-12-08
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  8. 2020-11-25
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    Charge registered #8
    Lender: Hsbc UK Bank PLC
  9. 2020-01-02
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    accounts · AA
  10. 2019-10-14
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    mortgage · MR01
  11. 2019-10-14
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    mortgage · MR01
  12. 2019-10-14
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    Charge registered #7
    Lender: Hsbc Invoice Finance (UK) LTD
  13. 2019-10-14
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    Charge registered #6
    Lender: Hsbc Invoice Finance (UK) LTD
  14. 2018-12-22
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    accounts · AA
  15. 2017-11-29
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  16. 2016-12-07
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  17. 2016-04-29
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    auditors · AUD
  18. 2016-04-19
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    auditors · AUD
  19. 2014-07-14
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    Charge registered #5
    Lender: The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited
  20. 2014-01-29
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    Charge registered #4
    Lender: Hsbc Bank PLC
  21. 2010-09-06
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    Charge registered #3
    Lender: Cloudy Bay Investments LLP
  22. 2008-06-09
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Hsbc Bank PLC
  23. 2007-12-31
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    POLLOCK, John appointed
    secretary
  24. 2007-12-31
    ➖
    MURRAY, Stuart Craig resigned
    secretary
  25. 2007-09-03
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    POLLOCK, John appointed
    director
  26. 2007-07-06
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: David George Weston and Sarah Elizabeth Weston
  27. 2006-11-02
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    PETTIGREW, Alec Neil William appointed
    director
  28. 2006-11-02
    ➕
    MURRAY, Stuart Craig appointed
    secretary
  29. 2006-11-02
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    ALPHA SECRETARIAL LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  30. 2006-11-02
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    ALPHA DIRECT LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director
  31. 2006-11-01
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    Company incorporated
    As ASIAN SOURCING LINK UK LIMITED
  32. 2006-11-01
    ➕
    ALPHA SECRETARIAL LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  33. 2006-11-01
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    ALPHA DIRECT LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

76/100
High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

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.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 60 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

69/100
Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS
  • secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 60. Early succession window.
  • 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

1 low
8 live charges
low

Heavily leveraged with multiple live security positions — understand the capital structure before proceeding.

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Alec Neil William Pettigrew
Individual · British · DOB 03/1966 · age 60
——sig. influencesignificant influence06/04/2016

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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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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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2006-11-01
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC46190 — Agents involved in the sale of a variety of goods

Registered office

30 St Giles
Oxford
OX1 3LE

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-10-28
Last: 2025-10-14

Officers (3 active · 3 resigned)

POLLOCK, John→
secretary · appointed 2007-12-31
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Active
PETTIGREW, Alec Neil William→
director · ~60y · appointed 2006-11-02
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Active
POLLOCK, John→
director · ~57y · appointed 2007-09-03
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MURRAY, Stuart Craig→
secretary · appointed 2006-11-02 · resigned 2007-12-31
Resigned
ALPHA SECRETARIAL LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2006-11-01 · resigned 2006-11-02
Resigned
ALPHA DIRECT LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2006-11-01 · resigned 2006-11-02
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

8
Total charges
8
Outstanding
4
Active lenders
Status:Lender:8 of 8 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
HSBC
Hsbc UK Bank PLC
A registered charge1 property25/11/2020—
outstanding
HSBC
Hsbc Invoice Finance (UK) LTD
A registered charge—14/10/2019—
outstanding
HSBC
Hsbc Invoice Finance (UK) LTD
A registered charge—14/10/2019—
outstanding
The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited
A registered charge—14/07/2014—
outstanding
HSBC
Hsbc Bank PLC
A registered charge1 property29/01/2014—
outstanding
Cloudy Bay Investments
Cloudy Bay Investments LLP
Rent deposit deed1 property06/09/2010—
outstanding
HSBC
Hsbc Bank PLC
Debenture1 property09/06/2008—
outstanding
David George Weston and Sarah Elizabeth Weston
Rent deposit deed1 property06/07/2007—
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Recent filings (61 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2026-03-25
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-10-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2024-10-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-10-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2024-03-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-10-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-05-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-10-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2022-03-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-10-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2021-06-14
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2020-12-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-10-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2020-01-02
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-10-14