AEROSPACE CUTTING TOOL LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
06875192 · ltd · incorporated 2009-04-09
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 Apr 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Repair of machinery
Sector: Manufacturing
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 71121Engineering design activities for industrial process and production
  • 71129Other engineering activities
  • 74100Specialised design activities
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 67-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 67). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: high (81/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile
address, 4 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
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 4 with DOB)
86
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
9 connected companies via shared directors
72
Filing history
47 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
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
90
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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£0£0£0£0£0£0Apr 2024Apr 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-04-302024-04-30

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

2 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
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (22 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-01-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-01-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-03-21
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  4. 2023-12-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2023-04-19
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  6. 2023-04-19
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  7. 2023-02-24
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  8. 2023-02-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2023-01-01
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    MEYYAPPAN, Shamini resigned
    director
  10. 2022-01-14
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2021-01-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2020-01-30
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    accounts · AA
  13. 2019-01-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  14. 2018-03-22
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    COLLINS, Patrick John appointed
    director
  15. 2018-03-22
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  16. 2018-01-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  17. 2015-09-08
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    MEYYAPPAN, Shamini appointed
    director
  18. 2015-08-18
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    ANNAMALAI, Anand, Mr. resigned
    director
  19. 2010-07-07
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    RICHARDSON, Barry appointed
    director
  20. 2010-04-20
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    RICHARDSON, Barry appointed
    secretary
  21. 2009-04-09
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    Company incorporated
    As AEROSPACE CUTTING TOOL LIMITED
  22. 2009-04-09
    ➕
    ANNAMALAI, Anand, Mr. appointed
    director

Owner dependency

83/100
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
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 16 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 67 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

79/100
Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 67. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 16 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
Mr Anand Annamalai
Individual · Indian · DOB 05/1972 · age 54
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting19/04/2023
Mr Barry Richardson
Individual · British · DOB 12/1959 · age 67
25–50%
—25-50% shares05/04/2017
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Mr Shamini Meyyappanceased 19/04/2023· 25-50% voting

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
Incorporated2009-04-09
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC33120 — Repair of machinery

Registered office

20-22 Wenlock Road
London
N1 7GU
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-01-31
Last made up to: 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-21
Last: 2026-04-07

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

RICHARDSON, Barry→
secretary · appointed 2010-04-20
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Active
COLLINS, Patrick John→
director · ~59y · appointed 2018-03-22
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Active
RICHARDSON, Barry→
director · ~67y · appointed 2010-07-07
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Active
ANNAMALAI, Anand, Mr.→
director · ~54y · appointed 2009-04-09 · resigned 2015-08-18
Resigned
MEYYAPPAN, Shamini→
director · ~51y · appointed 2015-09-08 · resigned 2023-01-01
Resigned

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Recent filings (47 total)

confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-01-30
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-01-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-17
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-03-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-20
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2023-04-19
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2023-04-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-04-18
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2023-02-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-02-01
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-04-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-01-14
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-04-13