DEBAR LTD

🌳Matureactive

06528552 · ltd · incorporated 2008-03-10

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 15.4y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Dec 2025

Net worth

£6.23M

book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 25990

Sector: Manufacturing

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 68-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 68). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 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

1 live charge · oldest 15.4y

65/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 15.4 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: high (81/100)

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

Lenders & charges

1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)

Directors & officers

11 officers (5 active, 11 linked, 10 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

2 active PSC(s) of 4 total, 4 with control declared

Director network

5 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

77 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

83/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared

Positive net assets

Net assets £6,233,444

Net assets shrinking

Down £237,147 YoY

Cash YoY

+10%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£2.9m

↑ 10% YoY

Net Worth

£6.2m

↓ 3.7% YoY

Current Assets

£6.0m

↑ 2.7% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-12-31	2024-12-31
Total assets	£6.74M	£6.98M
Current assets	£6.00M	£5.84M
Cash	£2.86M	£2.59M
Debtors	£1.56M	£1.51M
Net assets	£6.23M	£6.47M

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

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1 signal detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 90 days

filings

• 1 accounts
• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filings

• 2 confirmation-statement
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (38 events)Click to expand

2026-07-13
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accounts · AA
2025-08-18
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accounts · AA
2025-03-18
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officers · CH01
2024-09-13
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officers · AP01
2024-09-13
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officers · CH01
2024-09-02
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HICKS, Laurence appointed
director
2024-07-16
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officers · TM01
2024-07-09
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SUTCLIFFE, Peter resigned
director
2024-05-31
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accounts · AA
2024-04-12
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2024-04-12
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officers · CH01
2023-12-14
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2023-12-14
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-05-23
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accounts · AA
2022-10-20
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capital · SH02
2022-10-17
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resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2022-08-17
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accounts · AA
2022-05-10
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2022-03-07
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officers · AP01
2022-03-07
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officers · AP01
2022-03-01
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DAVIES, Lee James appointed
director
2022-03-01
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SUTCLIFFE, Peter appointed
director
2022-02-17
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2021-03-09
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BOOTH, Simon Timothy resigned
director
2021-01-20
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FAWTHROP, Benjamin Daniel appointed
director
2017-11-02
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GRAY, Kenneth David resigned
director
2016-08-08
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BOOTH, Simon Timothy appointed
director
2015-11-02
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GRAY, Kenneth David appointed
director
2011-03-10
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
2010-06-16
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BROMBERG, Stephen appointed
director
2009-10-13
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FAWTHROP, Graham appointed
director
2009-10-13
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FAWTHROP, Andrew Mark resigned
secretary
2009-10-13
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SOWDEN, Philip Stanley resigned
director
2008-08-26
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FAWTHROP, Graham resigned
director
2008-08-26
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SOWDEN, Philip Stanley appointed
director
2008-03-10
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Company incorporated
As DEBAR LTD
2008-03-10
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FAWTHROP, Andrew Mark appointed
secretary
2008-03-10
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FAWTHROP, Graham appointed
director

Owner dependency

73/100

High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS

-5 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 17 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 68 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

63/100

Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 68. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 17 years.
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.)

Group structure

Tecumseh Investments Llc holds 25-50% — a significant corporate investor but not a controlling parent.

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Tecumseh Investments Llc

Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares

significant stake

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DEBAR LTD

This company · 06528552

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Graham Fawthrop Individual · English · DOB 03/1960 · age 66	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	28/04/2023
Tecumseh Investments Llc Corporate entity	25–50%	—	25-50% shares	15/07/2016

2 historic (ceased) PSCs

Mr Stephen Brombergceased 29/04/2022· 25-50% shares
Mr Graham Fawthropceased 10/02/2022· 25-50% shares

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2008-03-10

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC25990 — SIC 25990

Registered office

West Hill House Allerton Hill

Chapel Allerton

Leeds

LS7 3QB

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-09-30

Last made up to: 2025-12-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-07-06

Last: 2026-06-22