AQUILA FURNITURE LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
06528945 · 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 17.9y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Apr 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Manufacture of office and shop furniture
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company. Family succession underway — not a classic acquisition target.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Same-surname younger director in place — likely family handover, not open to sale. 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 17.9y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 17.9 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 (79/100)

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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
6 officers (4 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
53 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 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£0Apr 2024Apr 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-04-302024-04-30
Average employees6500

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
2
filings
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-04-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-01-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-02-09
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  4. 2024-02-08
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  5. 2024-01-30
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    MCPHILLIPS, Jack Ashley appointed
    director
  6. 2024-01-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2023-04-11
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  8. 2022-12-02
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2021-12-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2021-01-13
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2019-12-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2019-01-03
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2017-12-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2016-12-05
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    accounts · AA
  15. 2016-04-29
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    annual-return · AR01
  16. 2015-11-02
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    accounts · AA
  17. 2008-07-28
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
  18. 2008-03-18
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    MCPHILLIPS, Joanne Elizabeth appointed
    secretary
  19. 2008-03-18
    ➕
    MCPHILLIPS, Joanne Elizabeth appointed
    director
  20. 2008-03-18
    ➕
    MCPHILLIPS, Steven appointed
    director
  21. 2008-03-13
    ➖
    HCS SECRETARIAL LIMITED resigned
    corporate-secretary
  22. 2008-03-13
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    HANOVER DIRECTORS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-director
  23. 2008-03-10
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    Company incorporated
    As AQUILA FURNITURE LIMITED
  24. 2008-03-10
    ➕
    HCS SECRETARIAL LIMITED appointed
    corporate-secretary
  25. 2008-03-10
    ➕
    HANOVER DIRECTORS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-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
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 18 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 59 — approaching natural succession window.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Red flags

clean
No 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
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mrs Joanne Elizabeth Mcphillips
Individual · British · DOB 07/1971 · age 55
25–50%
25–50%board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control06/04/2016
Mr Steven Mcphillips
Individual · British · DOB 03/1967 · age 59
25–50%
25–50%board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control06/04/2016

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

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6 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2008-03-10
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC31010 — Manufacture of office and shop furniture

Registered office

Suite 3 Waterside Business Centre
Canal Street
Leigh
WN7 4DB
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-01-31
Last made up to: 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-24
Last: 2026-03-10

Officers (4 active · 2 resigned)

MCPHILLIPS, Joanne Elizabeth→
secretary · appointed 2008-03-18
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MCPHILLIPS, Jack Ashley→
director · ~31y · appointed 2024-01-30
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Active
MCPHILLIPS, Joanne Elizabeth→
director · ~55y · appointed 2008-03-18
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MCPHILLIPS, Steven→
director · ~59y · appointed 2008-03-18
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HCS SECRETARIAL LIMITED→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2008-03-10 · resigned 2008-03-13
Resigned
HANOVER DIRECTORS LIMITED→
corporate-director · appointed 2008-03-10 · resigned 2008-03-13
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
National Westminster Bank
National Westminster Bank PLC
Debenture1 property28/07/2008—
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Recent filings (53 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-04-23
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-01-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-12
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-02-09
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2024-02-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-01-30
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2023-04-11
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-02
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-12-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-04-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-01-13