AZCON CSL LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

06946490 · ltd · incorporated 2009-06-29

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.

Opportunity decay

approaching window · 12-months

Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.

· Oldest live charge 13.3y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Jul 2025

Net worth

£652.3k

book net assets

Opportunity

82/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 46520

Sector: Wholesale & retail

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 62-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 62). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 13.3y

85/100

ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

· Oldest live charge is 13.3 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (81/100)

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

Company profile

address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)

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

4 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

47 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

82/100Exceptional

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

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102

Positive net assets

Net assets £652,292

Cash YoY

+86%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£275k

↑ 86% YoY

Net Worth

£652k

↑ 8.7% YoY

Current Assets

£905k

↑ 3.4% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-07-31	2024-07-31
Total assets	£658.3k	£606.3k
Current assets	£905.1k	£875.1k
Cash	£275.4k	£147.7k
Debtors	£307.2k	£402.9k
Net assets	£652.3k	£600.2k

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

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (19 events)Click to expand

2026-01-27
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accounts · AA
2024-10-25
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accounts · AA
2024-01-25
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accounts · AA
2023-02-06
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accounts · AA
2021-11-15
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accounts · AA
2020-12-04
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accounts · AA
2019-10-31
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accounts · AA
2019-07-01
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2019-07-01
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officers · CH01
2019-07-01
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officers · CH01
2018-12-18
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accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2018-07-02
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2018-07-02
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2017-09-18
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accounts · AA
2017-07-05
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2013-04-18
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Rbs Invoice Finance Limited
2012-11-01
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NEWMAN, Brenda Mary appointed
director
2009-06-29
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Company incorporated
As AZCON CSL LIMITED
2009-06-29
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NEWMAN, Paul appointed
director

Owner dependency

89/100

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.
+Senior director age: Director aged approximately 62 — approaching natural succession window.
+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

69/100

Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS

secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 62. Early succession window.
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
Mr Paul Newman Individual · British · DOB 02/1966 · age 60	75–100%	75–100%	board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control	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

Incorporated2009-06-29

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC46520 — SIC 46520

Registered office

Unit 13 Tey Brook Business Centre

Brook Road Great Tey

Colchester

Essex

CO6 1JE

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-04-30

Last made up to: 2025-07-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-07-13

Last: 2026-06-29

Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)

NEWMAN, Brenda Mary→

director · ~62y · appointed 2012-11-01

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NEWMAN, Paul→

director · ~60y · appointed 2009-06-29

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown

			Type	Properties
	outstanding	NatWest Group Rbs Invoice Finance Limited	A registered charge	13 properties	18/04/2013	—

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