ANGLIA HOSE & HYDRAULICS LTD

🌳Matureactive
07244405 · ltd · incorporated 2010-05-05
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
hardening · 12-months
Already tight — no obvious softening catalysts on the horizon.
  • · Thesis: well-run, low negotiation leverage
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Sept 2025
Net worth
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Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Other engineering activities
Sector: Professional, scientific & technical
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 67-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 67). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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
75
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
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
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
40 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
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
90
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 Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Sept 2024Sept 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · IFRS
Metric2025-09-302024-09-30
Average employees500600

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 90 days
2
filings
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (19 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-06-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-05-13
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  3. 2025-04-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  4. 2024-08-03
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    legacy
    miscellaneous · RPCH01
  5. 2024-06-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  6. 2024-06-07
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    second-filing-of-confirmation-statement-with-made-up-date
    confirmation-statement · RP04CS01
  7. 2024-05-17
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  8. 2024-05-17
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  9. 2024-05-17
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  10. 2023-06-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  11. 2022-07-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2021-06-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2020-06-12
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2019-06-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  15. 2018-06-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  16. 2017-06-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  17. 2010-05-05
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    Company incorporated
    As ANGLIA HOSE & HYDRAULICS LTD
  18. 2010-05-05
    ➕
    MACLEAN, Charles William appointed
    director
  19. 2010-05-05
    ➕
    MACLEAN, Jacqueline Mary 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 16 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 67 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.
  • +No director turnover: Company is 16 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 67. 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 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
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Charles William Maclean
Individual · British · DOB 09/1959 · age 67
25–50%
—25-50% shares05/05/2017
Mrs Jacqueline Mary Maclean
Individual · British · DOB 11/1961 · age 65
25–50%
—25-50% shares05/05/2017

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
Incorporated2010-05-05
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC71129 — Other engineering activities

Registered office

1 Second Avenue
Bluebridge Industrial Estate
Halstead
CO9 2SU
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-06-30
Last made up to: 2025-09-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-05-19
Last: 2026-05-05

Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)

MACLEAN, Charles William→
director · ~67y · appointed 2010-05-05
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Active
MACLEAN, Jacqueline Mary→
director · ~65y · appointed 2010-05-05
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Active

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Recent filings (40 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2026-06-29
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-05-05
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-05-13
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-05-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-04-18
legacy
miscellaneous · RPCH01
2024-08-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-06-20
second-filing-of-confirmation-statement-with-made-up-date
confirmation-statement · RP04CS01
2024-06-07
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-05-17
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-05-17
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-05-17
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2024-05-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-06-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-05-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-07-29