20TH CENTURY FRAMES LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
06775455 · ltd · incorporated 2008-12-17
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.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£-19.2k
book net assets
Opportunity
81/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 16290
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pass (distressed without resilience)
Distressed active trading company — structural issues outweigh the discount.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 78). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Deleverage or restructure. Leverage at 100% of assets — consider sale of non-core assets or equity injection. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
7 officers (4 active, 7 linked, 4 with DOB)
81
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
3 connected companies via shared directors
54
Filing history
46 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
81/100Exceptional
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
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Negative net assets
Liabilities exceed assets by £19,193
High leverage
Liabilities are 100% of total assets
Leverage
100%
Liabilities / Total assets

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
-£19k
↓ 12% YoY
Current Assets
£6k
↑ 15% YoY
Current Liabilities
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-£19k-£14k-£9k-£4k£1k£6kMar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Total assets£6.1k£5.3k
Current assets£6.1k£5.3k
Net assets£-19.2k£-17.2k

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

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
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (26 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-10-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-01-20
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  3. 2023-12-11
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  4. 2022-07-12
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    officers · AP01
  5. 2022-07-01
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    ROBERTS, Phillip Howard appointed
    director
  6. 2022-07-01
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    address · AD01
  7. 2022-06-13
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  8. 2021-07-02
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  9. 2021-01-21
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  10. 2020-01-02
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  11. 2018-11-05
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    accounts · AA
  12. 2017-08-22
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    accounts · AA
  13. 2016-12-15
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  14. 2015-12-21
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    annual-return · AR01
  15. 2015-08-06
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    accounts · AA
  16. 2014-12-19
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    accounts · AA
  17. 2008-12-17
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    Company incorporated
    As 20TH CENTURY FRAMES LIMITED
  18. 2008-12-17
    ➕
    BRANDL, Erika Ann appointed
    secretary
  19. 2008-12-17
    ➕
    BRANDL, Erika Ann appointed
    director
  20. 2008-12-17
    ➕
    CALVERT, Christopher appointed
    director
  21. 2008-12-17
    ➕
    JPCORS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-secretary
  22. 2008-12-17
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    JPCORS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-secretary
  23. 2008-12-17
    ➕
    O'DONNELL, John Patrick appointed
    director
  24. 2008-12-17
    ➖
    O'DONNELL, John Patrick resigned
    director
  25. 2008-12-17
    ➕
    JPCORD LIMITED appointed
    corporate-director
  26. 2008-12-17
    ➖
    JPCORD LIMITED resigned
    corporate-director

Owner dependency

75/100
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 17 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 78 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

83/100
Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 78 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 17 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 17 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

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Ms Erika Ann Brandl
Individual · British · DOB 04/1949 · age 77
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/04/2016
Mr Christopher Calvert
Individual · British · DOB 03/1964 · age 62
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/04/2016

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
Incorporated2008-12-17
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC16290 — SIC 16290

Registered office

48 Elliott Road
London
W4 1PE
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last: 2025-12-17

Officers (4 active · 3 resigned)

BRANDL, Erika Ann→
secretary · appointed 2008-12-17
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BRANDL, Erika Ann→
director · ~77y · appointed 2008-12-17
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Active
CALVERT, Christopher→
director · ~62y · appointed 2008-12-17
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Active
ROBERTS, Phillip Howard→
director · ~78y · appointed 2022-07-01
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Active
JPCORS LIMITED→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2008-12-17 · resigned 2008-12-17
Resigned
O'DONNELL, John Patrick→
director · ~81y · appointed 2008-12-17 · resigned 2008-12-17
Resigned
JPCORD LIMITED→
corporate-director · appointed 2008-12-17 · resigned 2008-12-17
Resigned

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Recent filings (46 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-12-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-10-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-01-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-30
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-12-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-12-11
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-12-18
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2022-07-12
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2022-07-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-06-13
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-12-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-07-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-01-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-12-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2020-01-02