ANNIE SLOAN INTERIORS LTD
🌳Matureactive
07282974 · ltd · incorporated 2010-06-14
Investment thesis
Established operating company — standard diligence applies, no dominant angle.
Why interesting: Live, filing, normal profile.
Why risky: No standout signals in either direction.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
- · Oldest live charge 4.4y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Jun 2025
Net worth
£4.03M
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Other manufacturing n.e.c.
Sector: Manufacturing
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
- 47520Retail sale of hardware, paints and glass in specialised stores
Investor take
PursueAsset-holding vehicle with a 78-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 78). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).
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Refinance opportunity
1 live charge · oldest 4.4y
75/100
ready
Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.
- · Charge age ~4.4 years — mid-life; refi window approaching.
- · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
- · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.
Data confidence
Overall: medium (72/100)Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.
Company profile
address, 2 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
1 year of iXBRL accounts extracted (no YoY comparison) + narrative notes parsed
50
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
3 officers (3 active, 3 linked, 2 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
36 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 · FRS 102Positive net assets
Net assets £4,030,263
Key financials
1 year extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
£220k
Net Worth
£4.0m
Current Assets
£4.3m
Current Liabilities
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102| Metric | 2025-06-30 |
|---|---|
| Total assets | £4.03M |
| Current assets | £4.28M |
| Cash | £220.2k |
| Debtors | £2.97M |
| Net assets | £4.03M |
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.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
1
filing
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 90 days
1
filing
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
2
filings
- • 1 confirmation-statement
- • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (21 events)Click to expand
- 2026-03-25📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2025-04-02📄accounts-with-accounts-type-groupaccounts · AA
- 2024-05-01📄mortgage-satisfy-charge-fullmortgage · MR04
- 2024-05-01🔓Charge satisfied #1
- 2024-04-09📄accounts-with-accounts-type-groupaccounts · AA
- 2023-06-06📄accounts-with-accounts-type-groupaccounts · AA
- 2022-07-15📄accounts-with-accounts-type-groupaccounts · AA
- 2022-02-24📄mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-datemortgage · MR01
- 2022-02-17🔒Charge registered #1Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
- 2021-07-10📄accounts-with-accounts-type-smallaccounts · AA
- 2021-03-17📄accounts-amended-with-accounts-type-smallaccounts · AAMD
- 2020-07-07📄accounts-with-accounts-type-smallaccounts · AA
- 2019-08-20📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2019-03-21📄accounts-with-accounts-type-smallaccounts · AA
- 2018-04-05📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2017-06-08📄accounts-with-accounts-type-fullaccounts · AA
- 2016-06-15📄annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholdersannual-return · AR01
- 2010-06-14🏢Company incorporatedAs ANNIE SLOAN INTERIORS LTD
- 2010-06-14➕MANUEL, David appointedsecretary
- 2010-06-14➕MANUEL, Annie Elizabeth appointeddirector
- 2010-06-14➕MANUEL, David John appointeddirector
Owner dependency
91/100
Critical — business is the founderThe 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 78 — 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 candidateStrong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 78 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
cleanNo red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)
Shareholders & ownership
1 active beneficial owner| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mr David John Manuel Individual · British · DOB 07/1948 · age 78 | 25–50% | — | 25-50% shares | 15/06/2016 |
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
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Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2010-06-14
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC32990 — Other manufacturing n.e.c.
Registered office
1 Ashville Way
Cowley
Oxford
OX4 6TU
England
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2027-03-31
Last made up to: 2025-06-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-06-11
Last: 2026-05-28
Officers (3 active · 0 resigned)
Active
MANUEL, Annie Elizabeth→
Activedirector · ~77y · appointed 2010-06-14
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MANUEL, David John→
Activedirector · ~78y · appointed 2010-06-14
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Mortgages & charges
1
Total charges
0
Outstanding
0
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| satisfied | National Westminster Bank National Westminster Bank PLC | A registered charge | 1 property | 17/02/2022 | 01/05/2024 |
Recent filings (36 total)
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-05-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-03-25
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-06-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2025-04-02
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-06-17
mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2024-05-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2024-04-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-06-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2023-06-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2022-07-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-06-20
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2022-02-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2021-07-10
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-06-25
accounts-amended-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AAMD
2021-03-17