ANGLING SPIRIT LTD

🌳Matureactive
07281172 · ltd · incorporated 2010-06-11
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 Jun 2025
Net worth
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Opportunity
81/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 03120
Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 64-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 64). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (73/100)

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
1 year of iXBRL accounts extracted (no YoY comparison) + narrative notes parsed
50
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
7 connected companies via shared directors
66
Filing history
51 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

1 year 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 · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-06-30
Average employees300

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 90 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
3
filings
  • • 2 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (22 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-06-19
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    change-account-reference-date-company-current-extended
    accounts · AA01
  2. 2026-03-31
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    accounts · AA
  3. 2025-06-12
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  4. 2025-05-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2024-03-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2023-06-22
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  7. 2023-03-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2022-03-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2021-04-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2021-04-15
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    change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH03
  11. 2021-04-15
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  12. 2021-04-15
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  13. 2021-04-15
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  14. 2021-04-15
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  15. 2021-04-15
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  16. 2021-02-02
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  17. 2021-02-02
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  18. 2021-02-02
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    change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH03
  19. 2010-06-11
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    Company incorporated
    As ANGLING SPIRIT LTD
  20. 2010-06-11
    ➕
    GUILLOIS-HONEY, Marianne appointed
    secretary
  21. 2010-06-11
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    GUILLOIS-HONEY, Marianne appointed
    director
  22. 2010-06-11
    ➕
    HONEY, Ross appointed
    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 16 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 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 Ross Honey
Individual · British · DOB 02/1962 · age 64
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016
Mrs Marianne Guillois-Honey
Individual · French · DOB 05/1969 · age 57
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
Incorporated2010-06-11
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC03120 — SIC 03120

Registered office

Unit 6 Emsworth Marina
Thorney Road
Emsworth
PO10 8BP
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-04-30
Last made up to: 2025-06-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-06-25
Last: 2026-06-11

Officers (3 active · 0 resigned)

GUILLOIS-HONEY, Marianne→
secretary · appointed 2010-06-11
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Active
GUILLOIS-HONEY, Marianne→
director · ~57y · appointed 2010-06-11
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Active
HONEY, Ross→
director · ~64y · appointed 2010-06-11
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Active

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Recent filings (51 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-06-25
change-account-reference-date-company-current-extended
accounts · AA01
2026-06-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-03-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-06-12
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-06-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-05-29
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-06-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-03-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-06-22
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-06-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-03-30
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-06-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-03-31
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-06-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-04-26