AMEY PLASTICS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

07217158 · ltd · incorporated 2010-04-08

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 15.9y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

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year to Jul 2025

Net worth

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book net assets

Opportunity

82/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 22290

Sector: Manufacturing

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 83-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 83). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 2 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 15.9y

50/100

clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

· Oldest live charge is 15.9 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
· Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

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

2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)

Directors & officers

3 officers (2 active, 3 linked, 3 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared

Director network

2 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

41 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.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

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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	2025-07-31	2024-07-31
Average employees	1300	1200

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

Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (22 events)Click to expand

2025-10-22
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2024-10-22
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2023-10-31
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2022-11-04
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2021-10-26
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accounts · AA
2021-01-07
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accounts · AA
2019-11-20
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accounts · AA
2019-02-20
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accounts · AA
2018-01-11
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accounts · AA
2017-01-03
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accounts · AA
2016-10-18
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officers · TM01
2016-08-31
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WILLIAMS, Philip George resigned
director
2016-05-05
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annual-return · AR01
2015-12-16
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accounts · AA
2015-04-08
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annual-return · AR01
2014-11-05
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accounts · AA
2014-03-01
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WILLIAMS, Philip George appointed
director
2010-08-02
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Charge registered #2
Lender: Robin Keith Beard
2010-08-02
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Robin Keith Beard and Jennifer Daphne Beard
2010-04-08
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Company incorporated
As AMEY PLASTICS LIMITED
2010-04-08
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SCOTT, Kenneth Robert, Mr. appointed
director
2010-04-08
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SCOTT, Philip Edwin, Mr. appointed
director

Owner dependency

91/100

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 16 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 83 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

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 83 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 16 years.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 16 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

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Kenneth Robert Scott Individual · British · DOB 12/1949 · age 77	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	06/04/2016
Mr Philip Edwin Scott Individual · British · DOB 08/1943 · age 83	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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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2010-04-08

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC22290 — SIC 22290

Registered office

Suite 2 Wesley Chambers

Queens Road

Aldershot

Hampshire

GU11 3JD

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-04-30

Last made up to: 2025-07-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-04-22

Last: 2026-04-08

Officers (2 active · 1 resigned)

SCOTT, Kenneth Robert, Mr.→

director · ~77y · appointed 2010-04-08

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Active

SCOTT, Philip Edwin, Mr.→

director · ~83y · appointed 2010-04-08

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Active

WILLIAMS, Philip George→

director · ~74y · appointed 2014-03-01 · resigned 2016-08-31

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown

			Type	Properties
	outstanding	Robin Keith Beard	Rent deposit deed	1 property	02/08/2010	—
	outstanding	Robin Keith Beard and Jennifer Daphne Beard	Rent deposit deed	1 property	02/08/2010	—

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