ALBANY WINDOWS LTD

🌳Matureactive

07435629 · ltd · incorporated 2010-11-10

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

—

year to Apr 2025

Net worth

£203.9k

book net assets

Opportunity

81/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Glazing

Sector: Construction

Investor take

Pursue

Asset-holding vehicle with a 79-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 79). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (77/100)

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

2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

7 officers (5 active, 7 linked, 5 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

Network not yet resolved

Filing history

46 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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared

Positive net assets

Net assets £203,903

Cash YoY

+115%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£206k

↑ 115% YoY

Net Worth

£204k

↑ 50% YoY

Current Assets

£488k

↑ 29% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-04-30	2024-04-30
Total assets	£254.0k	£201.3k
Current assets	£487.6k	£377.6k
Cash	£206.3k	£96.1k
Debtors	£211.6k	£221.8k
Net assets	£203.9k	£136.0k

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

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filings

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (26 events)Click to expand

2026-01-22
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accounts · AA
2025-01-24
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accounts · AA
2024-01-18
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accounts · AA
2022-11-14
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-01-26
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accounts · AA
2021-04-20
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accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2020-01-22
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-10-07
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC08
2019-10-01
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GOLDSBY, Timothy Edward appointed
secretary
2019-10-01
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GOLDSBY, David John resigned
secretary
2019-10-01
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2019-10-01
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officers · AP03
2019-10-01
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officers · TM02
2019-01-29
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2018-09-07
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officers · TM01
2018-09-05
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GOLDSBY, Samuel Thomas resigned
director
2018-06-20
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2018-06-19
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GOLDSBY, Samuel Thomas appointed
director
2018-01-26
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2017-05-21
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officers · CH01
2013-09-17
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GOLDSBY, Timothy Edward appointed
director
2013-09-17
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KNOX, Nathan John appointed
director
2010-11-10
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Company incorporated
As ALBANY WINDOWS LTD
2010-11-10
➕
GOLDSBY, David John appointed
director
2010-11-10
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KNOX, Peter Derek appointed
director
2010-11-10
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GOLDSBY, David John appointed
secretary

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 79 — 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 79 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.)

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2010-11-10

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC43342 — Glazing

Registered office

Unit 40 Space Business Centre

Tewkesbury Road

Cheltenham

Gloucestershire

GL51 9FL

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-01-31

Last made up to: 2025-04-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-10-21

Last: 2025-10-07

Officers (5 active · 2 resigned)

GOLDSBY, Timothy Edward→

secretary · appointed 2019-10-01

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Active

GOLDSBY, David John→

director · ~79y · appointed 2010-11-10

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Active

GOLDSBY, Timothy Edward→

director · ~51y · appointed 2013-09-17

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Active

KNOX, Nathan John→

director · ~37y · appointed 2013-09-17

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Active

KNOX, Peter Derek→

director · ~66y · appointed 2010-11-10

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Active

GOLDSBY, David John→

secretary · appointed 2010-11-10 · resigned 2019-10-01

Resigned

GOLDSBY, Samuel Thomas→

director · ~40y · appointed 2018-06-19 · resigned 2018-09-05

Resigned

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