ALBION COMMUNICATION LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
06955586 · ltd · incorporated 2009-07-08
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
81/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Management consultancy activities other than financial management
Sector: Professional, scientific & technical
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 63-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 63). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).
Data confidence
Overall: medium (76/100)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
3 officers (3 active, 3 linked, 2 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
43 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
81/100Exceptional
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
90
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 · FRS 102| Metric | 2025-03-31 | 2024-03-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Average employees | 200 | 200 |
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.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
1
filing
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 90 days
1
filing
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
1
filing
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (18 events)Click to expand
- 2025-08-14📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2025-03-03📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2024-07-10📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2024-03-21➕GLOVER, Isabella Jean appointeddirector
- 2024-03-21📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2023-06-13📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2022-05-03📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2021-07-14📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2020-09-23📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2019-08-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2019-07-04📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2018-08-16📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2018-03-29📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2017-10-16📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2017-08-22📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2009-07-08🏢Company incorporatedAs ALBION COMMUNICATION LIMITED
- 2009-07-08➕GLOVER, Isabella Jean appointedsecretary
- 2009-07-08➕CROTON, Michael Colin appointeddirector
Owner dependency
76/100
High — earn-out structure requiredMaterial founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.
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 63 — approaching natural succession window.
Succession & seller-readiness
69/100
Strong succession signalMultiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 63. 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 17 years.
- 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
2 active beneficial owners| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
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Mr Michael Colin Croton Individual · British · DOB 10/1963 · age 63 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 06/04/2016 |
Isabella Jean Glover Individual · British · DOB 05/1967 · age 59 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% 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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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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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2009-07-08
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC70229 — Management consultancy activities other than financial management
Registered office
4th Floor 95 Gresham Street
London
EC2V 7AB
United Kingdom
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-07-22
Last: 2026-07-08
Officers (3 active · 0 resigned)
GLOVER, Isabella Jean→
Activesecretary · appointed 2009-07-08
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CROTON, Michael Colin→
Activedirector · ~63y · appointed 2009-07-08
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GLOVER, Isabella Jean→
Activedirector · ~59y · appointed 2024-03-21
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Recent filings (43 total)
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-07-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-08-14
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-08-11
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2025-03-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-07-10
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-07-08
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2024-03-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-07-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-06-13
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-07-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-05-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-07-14
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-07-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2020-09-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-07-08