ANTIQUE APOTHECARY LTD

🌳Matureactive

06940344 · ltd · incorporated 2009-06-22

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

—

year to Jun 2025

Net worth

£-30.8k

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Other manufacturing n.e.c.

Sector: Manufacturing

Investor take

Pass (distressed without resilience)

Distressed active trading company — structural issues outweigh the discount.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 74). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (72/100)

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

1 year of iXBRL accounts extracted (no YoY comparison) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

2 officers (2 active, 2 linked, 2 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

1 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

40 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

80/100Exceptional

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

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared

Negative net assets

Liabilities exceed assets by £30,823

Key financials

1 year extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

-£31k

Current Assets

£9k

Current Liabilities

—

Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-06-30
Total assets	£7.7k
Current assets	£9.1k
Debtors	£7.2k
Net assets	£-30.8k

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

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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

filings

Last 90 days

filings

• 2 accounts

Last 180 days

filings

• 2 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (19 events)Click to expand

2026-04-13
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2026-03-30
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2025-02-27
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2024-01-25
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2023-03-27
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2022-01-07
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2021-05-13
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2020-03-19
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2019-03-25
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2018-02-26
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accounts · AA
2017-07-07
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address · AD01
2017-06-27
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2017-06-09
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2017-03-22
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2016-07-17
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2016-03-28
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2014-03-27
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ANASSUTZI, Elena appointed
director
2009-06-22
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Company incorporated
As ANTIQUE APOTHECARY LTD
2009-06-22
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ANASSUTZI, Maria appointed
director

Owner dependency

96/100

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 17 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 74 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.
+No director turnover: Company is 17 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.

Succession & seller-readiness

89/100

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 74 years old. Natural succession window is now.
secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
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 · dominant holder ≥75%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Ms Maria Anassutzi Individual · Greek · DOB 11/1964 · age 62	75–100%	75–100%	75-100% shares · 75-100% voting	06/04/2016

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

Incorporated2009-06-22

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC32990 — Other manufacturing n.e.c.

Registered office

2 Villiers Court

40 Upper Mulgrave Road

Cheam

Surrey

SM2 7AJ

England

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-06-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-07-06

Last: 2025-06-22

Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)

ANASSUTZI, Elena→

director · ~74y · appointed 2014-03-27

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ANASSUTZI, Maria→

director · ~62y · appointed 2009-06-22

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Recent filings (40 total)

change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened

accounts · AA01

2026-04-13

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2026-03-30