ALBANY SMITH MANAGEMENT LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
06901966 · ltd · incorporated 2009-05-11
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
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Management consultancy activities other than financial management
Sector: Professional, scientific & technical
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 73-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 73). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. 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
4 officers (4 active, 4 linked, 4 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
67 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
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Net Worth
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Average employees400400

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

3 signals detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
1
filing
  • • 1 officers
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 officers
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 officers
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-06-01
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  2. 2025-11-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2025-06-09
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  4. 2024-12-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2024-07-08
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  6. 2024-05-23
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  7. 2024-05-23
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  8. 2024-05-23
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  9. 2024-05-23
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  10. 2024-05-23
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  11. 2023-12-14
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2022-12-07
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2021-10-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2021-07-05
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  15. 2021-07-05
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  16. 2020-12-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  17. 2020-07-22
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  18. 2020-07-22
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  19. 2020-07-22
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  20. 2016-05-09
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    SMITH, Andrew David appointed
    director
  21. 2016-05-09
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    SMITH, Jennifer Louise appointed
    director
  22. 2009-05-11
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    Company incorporated
    As ALBANY SMITH MANAGEMENT LIMITED
  23. 2009-05-11
    ➕
    SMITH, Audrey Christine appointed
    director
  24. 2009-05-11
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    SMITH, Graham Ernest appointed
    director

Owner dependency

88/100
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
  • -4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
  • +Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "SMITH" — strong identity link between founder and business.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 17 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 73 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

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 73 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

1 active beneficial owner
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Graham Ernest Smith
Individual · British · DOB 11/1955 · age 71
50–75%
50–75%board control50-75% shares · 50-75% voting · board control06/04/2016
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Mrs Audrey Smithceased 26/03/2018· 25-50% shares

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
Incorporated2009-05-11
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC70229 — Management consultancy activities other than financial management

Registered office

12 Church Street
Cromer
Norfolk
NR27 9ER

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-07-21
Last: 2025-07-07

Officers (4 active · 0 resigned)

SMITH, Andrew David→
director · ~42y · appointed 2016-05-09
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
SMITH, Audrey Christine→
director · ~73y · appointed 2009-05-11
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
SMITH, Graham Ernest→
director · ~71y · appointed 2009-05-11
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
SMITH, Jennifer Louise→
director · ~44y · appointed 2016-05-09
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active

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Recent filings (67 total)

change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-06-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-11-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-07-16
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-06-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-07-12
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2024-07-08
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2024-05-23
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-05-23
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-05-23
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-05-23
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-05-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-14
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-07-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-07