2-TONE CENTRAL LTD

🌳Matureactive

07357857 · private-limited-guarant-nsc · incorporated 2010-08-26

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 Aug 2025

Net worth

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book net assets

Opportunity

81/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Museum activities

Sector: Arts, entertainment & recreation

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 82-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 82). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

5 officers (4 active, 5 linked, 5 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared

Director network

2 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

35 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

81/100Exceptional

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

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	2025-08-31	2024-08-31
Average employees	0	0

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

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (22 events)Click to expand

2026-05-30
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2025-05-28
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2023-10-11
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2023-05-03
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2022-03-17
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2020-12-22
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2020-03-24
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2019-05-22
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2018-04-12
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2017-03-07
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2016-05-24
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2015-09-21
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annual-return · AR01
2015-02-18
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2015-02-18
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2014-10-01
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2013-06-05
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TWIGGER, Neil appointed
director
2012-11-18
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BENBOW, Tracy resigned
director
2010-08-26
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Company incorporated
As 2-TONE CENTRAL LTD
2010-08-26
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CHAMBERS, Julia appointed
director
2010-08-26
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CHAMBERS, Peter John George appointed
director
2010-08-26
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ROBERTS, Paul appointed
director
2010-08-26
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BENBOW, Tracy appointed
director

Owner dependency

73/100

High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS

-4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 16 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 82 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

83/100

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 82 years old. Natural succession window is now.
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

1 active beneficial owner

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Paul Roberts Individual · British · DOB 07/1970 · age 56	—	—	sig. influencesignificant influence · trust interest · firm interest	30/04/2016

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeprivate-limited-guarant-nsc

Incorporated2010-08-26

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC91020 — Museum activities

Registered office

110 Richmond Street

Stoke

Coventry

West Midlands

CV2 4HY

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-05-31

Last made up to: 2025-08-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-08-08

Last: 2025-07-25

Officers (4 active · 1 resigned)

CHAMBERS, Julia→

director · ~82y · appointed 2010-08-26

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Active

CHAMBERS, Peter John George→

director · ~70y · appointed 2010-08-26

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Active

ROBERTS, Paul→

director · ~56y · appointed 2010-08-26

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Active

TWIGGER, Neil→

director · ~58y · appointed 2013-06-05

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Active

BENBOW, Tracy→

director · ~60y · appointed 2010-08-26 · resigned 2012-11-18

Resigned

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Recent filings (35 total)

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accounts · AA

2026-05-30

confirmation-statement-with-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2025-08-11

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2025-05-28