ARROW ENGINEERING HOLDINGS LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
06845319 · ltd · incorporated 2009-03-12
Investment thesis
Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.
Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.
Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
- · Oldest live charge 17.2y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Oct 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Activities of head offices
Sector: Professional, scientific & technical
Investor take
PursueStrong opportunity: active trading company with exceptional profile and bankable structure.
Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. High owner-dependency — earn-out structure likely required for clean transition. 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 17.2y
65/100
clean up first
Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.
- · Oldest live charge is 17.2 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
7 officers (4 active, 7 linked, 5 with DOB)
84
Ownership & PSC
3 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
62 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 accountsCash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown| Metric | 2025-10-31 | 2024-10-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Average employees | 300 | 300 |
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.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
2
filings
- • 1 confirmation-statement
- • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (29 events)Click to expand
- 2026-02-04📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2025-02-06📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2024-02-07📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2024-02-07📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2023-03-06📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-10-28📄capital-cancellation-sharescapital · SH06
- 2022-10-28📄capital-return-purchase-own-sharescapital · SH03
- 2022-10-14📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC01
- 2022-10-14📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC01
- 2022-10-14📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC01
- 2022-10-13📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-09-29📄withdrawal-of-a-person-with-significant-control-statementpersons-with-significant-control · PSC09
- 2021-04-08📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-03-24📄termination-director-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM01
- 2021-02-07➖SHAW, Robin resigneddirector
- 2020-12-21📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2020-06-09📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2019-03-21📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2009-05-11🔒Charge registered #1Lender: John Hamilton Carver and Barbara Carver
- 2009-03-19➕SPARKS, Ian appointedsecretary
- 2009-03-19➕FLETCHER, Andrew Stuart appointeddirector
- 2009-03-19➕SHUCKSMITH, Ian Robert appointeddirector
- 2009-03-19➕SPARKS, Ian appointeddirector
- 2009-03-19➖AR Corporate Secretaries Limited resignedcorporate-secretary
- 2009-03-19➕SHAW, Robin appointeddirector
- 2009-03-19➖THOBURN, Robert James resigneddirector
- 2009-03-12🏢Company incorporatedAs ARROW ENGINEERING HOLDINGS LIMITED
- 2009-03-12➕AR Corporate Secretaries Limited appointedcorporate-secretary
- 2009-03-12➕THOBURN, Robert James appointeddirector
Owner dependency
68/100
High — earn-out structure requiredMaterial 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.
- +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 58 — approaching natural succession window.
Succession & seller-readiness
63/100
Strong succession signalMultiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.
SIGNALS
- secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 58. Early succession window.
- 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
cleanNo red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)
Shareholders & ownership
3 active beneficial owners| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ian Robert Shucksmith Individual · British · DOB 06/1968 · age 58 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 21/09/2022 |
Ian Sparks Individual · British · DOB 01/1970 · age 56 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 21/09/2022 |
Andrew Stuart Fletcher Individual · British · DOB 04/1975 · age 51 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 21/09/2022 |
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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🔒Tailored diligence questions
6 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
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Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2009-03-12
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC70100 — Activities of head offices
Registered office
Trent Remine Workshops
Dawes Lane
Scunthorpe
South Humberside
DN15 6UW
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2027-07-31
Last made up to: 2025-10-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-09
Last: 2026-03-26
Officers (4 active · 3 resigned)
Active
FLETCHER, Andrew Stuart→
Activedirector · ~51y · appointed 2009-03-19
View their other companies + combined net worth →
SHUCKSMITH, Ian Robert→
Activedirector · ~58y · appointed 2009-03-19
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
AR Corporate Secretaries Limited→
Resignedcorporate-secretary · appointed 2009-03-12 · resigned 2009-03-19
SHAW, Robin→
Resigneddirector · ~60y · appointed 2009-03-19 · resigned 2021-02-07
THOBURN, Robert James→
Resigneddirector · ~69y · appointed 2009-03-12 · resigned 2009-03-19
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Mortgages & charges
1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | John Hamilton Carver and Barbara Carver | Debenture | 1 property | 11/05/2009 | — |
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Recent filings (62 total)
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2026-02-04
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-02-06
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-21
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-02-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-02-07
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-03-06
capital-cancellation-shares
capital · SH06
2022-10-28
capital-return-purchase-own-shares
capital · SH03
2022-10-28
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2022-10-14
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2022-10-14
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2022-10-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-10-13