AVANTIS HARDWARE LTD

🌳Matureactive
06551845 · ltd · incorporated 2008-04-01
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 17.5y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
£12.95M
year to Sept 2025
Net worth
—
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 25720
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 60-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 60). 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 (85/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 17.5y

60/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 17.5 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.
  • · Profitable and stable/growing — lender coverage supportable.

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
75
Lenders & charges
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
4 officers (1 active, 4 linked, 3 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
6 connected companies via shared directors
63
Filing history
55 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.

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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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102
Profitable
Profit before tax £1,822,410

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£0Sept 2024Sept 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-09-302024-09-30
Turnover£12.95M—
Gross profit£3.67M—
Operating profit£1.95M—
Profit before tax£1.82M—
Average employees18001800

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

5 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
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (26 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-06-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-medium
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-06-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-06-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  4. 2024-04-03
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  5. 2023-04-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  6. 2022-07-01
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  7. 2022-05-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  8. 2021-06-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  9. 2021-02-25
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    termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM02
  10. 2021-02-25
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  11. 2021-02-23
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    ROSTANCE, David Anthony resigned
    secretary
  12. 2021-02-23
    ➖
    ROSTANCE, David Anthony resigned
    director
  13. 2020-06-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  14. 2020-05-28
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  15. 2020-05-22
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
  16. 2019-06-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  17. 2018-07-16
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  18. 2018-06-01
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    GOLIK, Peter resigned
    director
  19. 2018-05-10
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  20. 2017-06-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  21. 2009-01-21
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Rbs Invoice Finance Limited
  22. 2008-04-01
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    Company incorporated
    As AVANTIS HARDWARE LTD
  23. 2008-04-01
    ➕
    BROMLEY, Mark appointed
    director
  24. 2008-04-01
    ➕
    ROSTANCE, David Anthony appointed
    secretary
  25. 2008-04-01
    ➕
    GOLIK, Peter appointed
    director
  26. 2008-04-01
    ➕
    ROSTANCE, David Anthony appointed
    director

Owner dependency

93/100
Critical — business is the founder

The business appears inseparable from the founder. Acquisition without a serious earn-out or meaningful transition period would likely destroy value.

FACTORS
  • +Sole director: Only one active director — all governance concentrated on one person.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 18 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 60 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

78/100
Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS
  • secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 60. Early succession window.
  • primarySole active director: Only one director in control. No visible successor — buyers solve the succession problem.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 18 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 18 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

clean
No 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 · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Mark Bromley
Individual · British · DOB 02/1966 · age 60
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control31/03/2017

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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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2008-04-01
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC25720 — SIC 25720

Registered office

4th Floor, Tower Business Park
Wheelhouse Road
Rugeley
Staffordshire
WS15 1UZ
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-06-30
Last made up to: 2025-09-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-15
Last: 2026-04-01

Officers (1 active · 3 resigned)

BROMLEY, Mark→
director · ~60y · appointed 2008-04-01
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Active
ROSTANCE, David Anthony→
secretary · appointed 2008-04-01 · resigned 2021-02-23
Resigned
GOLIK, Peter→
director · ~67y · appointed 2008-04-01 · resigned 2018-06-01
Resigned
ROSTANCE, David Anthony→
director · ~80y · appointed 2008-04-01 · resigned 2021-02-23
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
2
Outstanding
2
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
National Westminster Bank
National Westminster Bank PLC
A registered charge—22/05/2020—
outstanding
NatWest Group
Rbs Invoice Finance Limited
Debenture1 property21/01/2009—
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Recent filings (55 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-medium
accounts · AA
2026-06-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2025-06-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2024-06-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-03
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2024-04-03
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-04-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2023-04-04
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2022-07-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2022-05-25
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-04-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2021-06-30
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-04-28
termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2021-02-25