DUNSTON (ELECTRICAL SERVICES) LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
06999691 · ltd · incorporated 2009-08-25
Investment thesis
Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.
Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.
Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 9.9y old — refinance window within 12 months
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Turnover
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Net worth
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Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 99999
Sector: Extraterritorial bodies
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 64-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 64). 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 9.9y

85/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 9.9 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
75
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
5 officers (2 active, 5 linked, 5 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
3 connected companies via shared directors
54
Filing history
54 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
83/100Exceptional
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
100
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 Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Dec 2023Dec 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-12-312023-12-31

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

1 signal 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
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filings
Last 90 days
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Last 180 days
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filings
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (26 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-07-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-04-10
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  3. 2024-07-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-06-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-09-07
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  6. 2022-09-07
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  7. 2022-06-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2022-06-27
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
  9. 2021-05-24
    ➖
    BOURNE, Gillian Margaret resigned
    director
  10. 2021-05-24
    ➖
    CLARK, Angela resigned
    director
  11. 2021-04-08
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2020-08-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2019-05-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2018-07-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  15. 2017-09-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  16. 2017-09-04
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  17. 2017-09-04
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  18. 2016-09-05
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  19. 2016-08-24
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  20. 2009-08-25
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    Company incorporated
    As DUNSTON (ELECTRICAL SERVICES) LIMITED
  21. 2009-08-25
    ➕
    BOURNE, Richard appointed
    director
  22. 2009-08-25
    ➕
    CLARK, David appointed
    director
  23. 2009-08-25
    ➕
    BOURNE, Gillian Margaret appointed
    director
  24. 2009-08-25
    ➕
    CLARK, Angela appointed
    director
  25. 2009-08-25
    ➕
    STEPHENS, Graham Robertson appointed
    director
  26. 2009-08-25
    ➖
    STEPHENS, Graham Robertson resigned
    director

Owner dependency

76/100
High — earn-out structure required

Material 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 64 — approaching natural succession window.

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 64. 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.
  • 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.)

Group structure

Dcrb Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Dcrb Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares
ultimate parent
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DUNSTON (ELECTRICAL SERVICES) LIMITED
This company · 06999691

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Dcrb Limited
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · firm interest06/04/2016

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
Incorporated2009-08-25
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC99999 — SIC 99999

Registered office

William Wright Dock
Kingston Upon Hull
East Yorkshire
HU3 4PG

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-09-11
Last: 2025-08-28

Officers (2 active · 3 resigned)

BOURNE, Richard→
director · ~57y · appointed 2009-08-25
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
CLARK, David→
director · ~64y · appointed 2009-08-25
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BOURNE, Gillian Margaret→
director · ~64y · appointed 2009-08-25 · resigned 2021-05-24
Resigned
CLARK, Angela→
director · ~63y · appointed 2009-08-25 · resigned 2021-05-24
Resigned
STEPHENS, Graham Robertson→
director · ~76y · appointed 2009-08-25 · resigned 2009-08-25
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
A registered charge—24/08/2016—
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Recent filings (54 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-09-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2025-07-22
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-04-10
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-09-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2024-07-11
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-08-29
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-06-21
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-09-21
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2022-09-07
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2022-09-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-06-30
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2022-06-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-09-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-04-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-09-02