DECORATIVE PANELS FURNITURE LIMITED

📈Growthactive

06773262 · ltd · incorporated 2008-12-15

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.

Opportunity decay

approaching window · 12-months

Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.

· Oldest live charge 17.3y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

£42.14M

year to Mar 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Manufacture of other furniture

Sector: Manufacturing

Investor take

Pursue

Leverage-led grower with a 76-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 65/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 76). 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: strategic trade sale (78/100).

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Refinance opportunity

4 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 17.3y

60/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 17.3 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

Lenders & charges

4 charges (4/4 with lender, 4/4 with type)

Directors & officers

14 officers (11 active, 14 linked, 13 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared

Director network

6 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

81 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

🔒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

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 · FRS 102

Profitable

Profit before tax £502,457

Turnover YoY

-0%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Turnover	£42.14M	£42.28M
Gross profit	£6.52M	£5.19M
Operating profit	£903.4k	£592.2k
Profit before tax	£502.5k	£178.8k
Average employees	21200	21200

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

4 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

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filings

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (42 events)Click to expand

2025-12-22
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accounts · AA
2025-01-03
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officers · AP01
2025-01-01
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SAWYER, Dayne Anthony appointed
director
2024-12-20
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officers · TM01
2024-12-16
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accounts · AA
2024-07-31
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WORTLEY, Andrew Robert resigned
director
2024-02-12
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officers · CH01
2023-12-19
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-19
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-02-09
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accounts · AA
2023-01-20
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officers · AP01
2023-01-01
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CALLAN, James Alastair appointed
director
2022-12-15
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2022-12-15
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2022-12-15
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2022-12-15
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-12-15
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-12-15
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2022-12-15
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officers · CH01
2022-12-15
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2022-09-30
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ATKINSON, Lynn resigned
director
2022-01-04
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2021-07-26
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mortgage · MR01
2021-07-16
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Charge registered #4
Lender: Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets PLC
2021-06-18
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mortgage · MR01
2021-06-14
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Charge registered #3
Lender: Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets PLC
2018-12-31
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FORWARD, Malcolm resigned
director
2018-09-01
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TAYLOR, Charlotte Louise appointed
director
2018-04-01
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SAWYER, Michael John appointed
director
2013-06-01
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WORTLEY, Andrew Robert appointed
director
2011-07-01
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DALTON, Philip appointed
director
2011-07-01
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TATHAM, Julian appointed
director
2009-05-01
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JOHNSON, Paul Robert appointed
director
2009-04-01
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ATKINSON, Lynn appointed
director
2009-03-05
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Charge registered #2
Lender: Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC
2009-03-05
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC
2009-02-13
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JONES, Tania Elizabeth appointed
secretary
2009-02-13
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GAUNT, Stephen Richard appointed
director
2009-02-13
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JONES, Tania Elizabeth appointed
director
2009-02-13
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FORWARD, Malcolm appointed
director
2008-12-15
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Company incorporated
As DECORATIVE PANELS FURNITURE LIMITED
2008-12-15
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METCALFE, John Guy 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

-10 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 18 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 76 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

73/100

Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 76 years old. Natural succession window is now.
secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 18 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

Decorative Panels Holdings Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Decorative Panels Holdings Limited

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control

ultimate parent

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DECORATIVE PANELS FURNITURE LIMITED

This company · 06773262

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

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Decorative Panels Holdings Limited Corporate entity	75–100%	75–100%	board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control	01/06/2016

2 historic (ceased) PSCs

Mr Stephen Richard Gauntceased 01/06/2016· 25-50% shares
Mr John Guy Metcalfeceased 01/06/2016· significant influence

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

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Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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8 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

Incorporated2008-12-15

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC31090 — Manufacture of other furniture

Registered office

Century House Century House

Premier Way, Lowfields Business Park

Elland

West Yorkshire

HX5 9HF

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-12-29

Last: 2025-12-15