ARMD INTERNATIONAL LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
07312779 · ltd · incorporated 2010-07-13
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.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Jul 2025
Net worth
£-17.2k
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 46160
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
Pass (distressed without resilience)
Active trading company. Family succession underway — not a classic acquisition target.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Same-surname younger director in place — likely family handover, not open to sale. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Cash flow review and working-capital discipline. Cash down -50% YoY — forensic review of receivables, stock turns, and creditor days. 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
3 officers (2 active, 3 linked, 3 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
4 connected companies via shared directors
57
Filing history
35 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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102
Negative net assets
Liabilities exceed assets by £17,242
Net assets shrinking
Down £18,017 YoY
Cash draining
Cash down 50% YoY
Cash YoY
-50%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£7k
↓ 50% YoY
Net Worth
-£17k
↓ 2325% YoY
Current Assets
£24k
↑ 15% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
-£17k-£9k-£670£8k£16k£24kJul 2024Jul 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-07-312024-07-31
Total assets£-11.9k£775
Current assets£24.2k£21.0k
Cash£7.2k£14.3k
Debtors£17.0k£6.7k
Net assets£-17.2k£775

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
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (20 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-04-22
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    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-10-06
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    officers · AP01
  3. 2025-10-01
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    TAHIR, Mobeen Ahmad appointed
    director
  4. 2025-04-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2024-04-27
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  6. 2023-04-25
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  7. 2022-11-07
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    officers · TM01
  8. 2022-11-01
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    SIDDIQA, Rashida resigned
    director
  9. 2022-03-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2021-04-08
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  11. 2020-04-22
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  12. 2019-04-20
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  13. 2018-04-29
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  14. 2017-04-10
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  15. 2016-04-26
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  16. 2015-10-22
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  17. 2015-04-30
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  18. 2010-07-13
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    Company incorporated
    As ARMD INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
  19. 2010-07-13
    ➕
    TAHIR, Rafiq Ahmad appointed
    director
  20. 2010-07-13
    ➕
    SIDDIQA, Rashida 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 73 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

39/100
Weak signal

Limited succession signal. Not a near-term off-market candidate.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFamily succession underway: Not a takeover target — TAHIR, Mobeen Ahmad (same surname) appointed 2025-10-01. Pattern consistent with intra-family handover.
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 73 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.
  • 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

1 active beneficial owner
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Rafiq Ahmad Tahir
Individual · British · DOB 07/1953 · age 73
——sig. influencesignificant influence21/10/2016

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
Incorporated2010-07-13
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC46160 — SIC 46160

Registered office

266 Central Road
Morden
Surrey
SM4 5RG

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-04-30
Last made up to: 2025-07-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-11-04
Last: 2025-10-21

Officers (2 active · 1 resigned)

TAHIR, Mobeen Ahmad→
director · ~44y · appointed 2025-10-01
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Active
TAHIR, Rafiq Ahmad→
director · ~73y · appointed 2010-07-13
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
SIDDIQA, Rashida→
director · ~64y · appointed 2010-07-13 · resigned 2022-11-01
Resigned

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Recent filings (35 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-04-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-11-01
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2025-10-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-04-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-11-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-04-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-10-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-04-25
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2022-11-07
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-10-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-03-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-10-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-04-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-11-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-04-22