ARRIVAL ELECTRONICS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
07087199 · ltd · incorporated 2009-11-25
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 10.4y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Sept 2025
Net worth
£2.38M
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 27900
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 68-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 68). 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 10.4y

85/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 10.4 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (82/100)

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
2 officers (2 active, 2 linked, 2 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
6 connected companies via shared directors
63
Filing history
45 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
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
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £2,376,301
Net assets shrinking
Down £977,831 YoY
Cash YoY
+99%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£181k
↑ 99% YoY
Net Worth
£2.4m
↓ 29% YoY
Current Assets
£999k
↓ 36% YoY
Current Liabilities
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£0£671k£1.3m£2.0m£2.7m£3.4mSept 2024Sept 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-09-302024-09-30
Total assets£2.59M£3.41M
Current assets£998.6k£1.57M
Cash£181.3k£91.1k
Debtors£580.0k£1.21M
Net assets£2.38M£3.35M

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

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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
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 90 days
2
filings
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 persons-with-significant-control
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 persons-with-significant-control
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (19 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-06-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2026-06-17
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  3. 2025-07-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2024-12-19
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    change-account-reference-date-company-previous-extended
    accounts · AA01
  5. 2023-12-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2022-12-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2021-12-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2020-12-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2019-11-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2019-03-19
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  11. 2019-03-19
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  12. 2018-12-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2018-03-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2017-01-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  15. 2016-03-09
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  16. 2016-03-09
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Hsbc Bank PLC
  17. 2015-07-01
    ➕
    SMITH, Colin Ian appointed
    director
  18. 2009-11-25
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    Company incorporated
    As ARRIVAL ELECTRONICS LIMITED
  19. 2009-11-25
    ➕
    SMITH, Jane 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 68 — 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

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 68. 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.)

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mrs Jane Smith
Individual · British · DOB 10/1959 · age 67
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/04/2016
Mr Colin Ian Smith
Individual · British · DOB 07/1958 · age 68
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016

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
Incorporated2009-11-25
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC27900 — SIC 27900

Registered office

Unit 2 Ford Lane Business Park Ford Lane Business Park
Ford
Arundel
West Sussex
BN18 0UZ

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-06-30
Last made up to: 2025-09-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-12-04
Last: 2025-11-20

Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)

SMITH, Colin Ian→
director · ~68y · appointed 2015-07-01
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Active
SMITH, Jane→
director · ~67y · appointed 2009-11-25
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Active

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
HSBC
Hsbc Bank PLC
A registered charge1 property09/03/2016—
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Recent filings (45 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-06-30
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2026-06-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-12-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-07-01
change-account-reference-date-company-previous-extended
accounts · AA01
2024-12-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-05
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-01-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-11-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-12-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-11-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-12-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-11-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-12-02