ABC TECH LTD
🌳Matureactive
06401942 · ltd · incorporated 2007-10-17
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.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
- · Oldest live charge 18.1y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Dec 2024
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 46520
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 63-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 63). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 2 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).
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Refinance opportunity
2 live charges · oldest 18.1y
65/100
clean up first
Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.
- · Oldest live charge is 18.1 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
- · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.
Data confidence
Overall: medium (72/100)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
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
3 officers (3 active, 3 linked, 2 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
58 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
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
100
Good data coverage for analysis.
Key financials
1 year 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 · IFRS| Metric | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|
| Average employees | 400 |
Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.
🔒Filing-note intelligence
3 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
0
filings
Last 180 days
2
filings
- • 1 accounts
- • 1 persons-with-significant-control
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (26 events)Click to expand
- 2025-12-02📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2025-11-11📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2025-10-20📄change-person-secretary-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH03
- 2025-10-20📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2025-10-20📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2025-10-20📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2025-10-20📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2025-09-30📄change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortenedaccounts · AA01
- 2024-10-07📄change-person-secretary-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH03
- 2024-09-26📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-07-17📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-11-08📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-10-12📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2022-10-12📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2022-10-12📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2022-10-12📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2022-09-29📄change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortenedaccounts · AA01
- 2022-04-25📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2022-04-01➕NITA, Beverley appointeddirector
- 2021-09-23📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-01-08📄capital-allotment-sharescapital · SH01
- 2008-04-08🔒Charge registered #2Lender: Hsbc Invoice Finance (UK) Limited (the Security Holder)
- 2008-04-08🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Hsbc Invoice Finance (UK) Limited (the Security Holder)
- 2007-10-17🏢Company incorporatedAs ABC TECH LTD
- 2007-10-17➕NITA, Beverley appointedsecretary
- 2007-10-17➕NITA, Adrian Ioan appointeddirector
Owner dependency
84/100
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 19 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 63 — approaching natural succession window.
- +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 63. 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 19 years.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 19 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
1 active beneficial owner| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mr Adrian Ioan Nita Individual · Romanian · DOB 08/1963 · age 63 | 50–75% | — | 50-75% 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
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🔒Tailored diligence questions
6 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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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2007-10-17
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC46520 — SIC 46520
Registered office
Unit C17 Kestrel Business Centre Private Road 2
Colwick Industrial Estate
Nottingham
NG4 2JR
United Kingdom
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-29
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-10-23
Last: 2025-10-09
Officers (3 active · 0 resigned)
Active
NITA, Adrian Ioan→
Activedirector · ~63y · appointed 2007-10-17
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NITA, Beverley→
Activedirector · ~63y · appointed 2022-04-01
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Mortgages & charges
2
Total charges
2
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | HSBC Hsbc Invoice Finance (UK) Limited (the Security Holder) | Floating charge (all assets) | 1 property | 08/04/2008 | — | |
| outstanding | HSBC Hsbc Invoice Finance (UK) Limited (the Security Holder) | Fixed charge on purchased debts which fail to vest | 1 property | 08/04/2008 | — |
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Recent filings (58 total)
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-02
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-11-11
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2025-10-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-10-20
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-10-20
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-10-20
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-10-20
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2025-10-20
change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
accounts · AA01
2025-09-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-10-16
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2024-10-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-09-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-10-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-07-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-11-08