ABBEY VETERINARY GROUP LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

07579824 · ltd · incorporated 2011-03-28

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 11.5y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

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year to Mar 2025

Net worth

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book net assets

Opportunity

82/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Veterinary activities

Sector: Professional, scientific & technical

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 78-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 78). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

3 live charges · oldest 11.5y

85/100

ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

· Oldest live charge is 11.5 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

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

3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)

Directors & officers

2 officers (2 active, 2 linked, 2 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared

Director network

2 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

36 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

82/100Exceptional

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

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

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Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Average employees	64	6200

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

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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

filings

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (21 events)Click to expand

2025-12-22
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2024-12-23
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2023-12-28
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2022-12-22
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2021-12-23
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accounts · AA
2021-03-11
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accounts · AA
2019-12-11
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accounts · AA
2018-12-24
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accounts · AA
2017-12-14
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accounts · AA
2016-12-21
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accounts · AA
2016-04-25
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2015-12-21
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accounts · AA
2015-05-01
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annual-return · AR01
2015-01-02
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mortgage · MR01
2014-12-30
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mortgage · MR01
2014-12-19
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Charge registered #3
Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
2014-12-19
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Charge registered #2
Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
2014-12-05
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
2011-03-28
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Company incorporated
As ABBEY VETERINARY GROUP LIMITED
2011-03-28
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DUFFY, Anthony Desmond appointed
director
2011-03-28
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DUFFY, Sheila appointed
director

Owner dependency

96/100

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 15 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.
+No director turnover: Company is 15 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.

Succession & seller-readiness

89/100

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 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 15 years.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 15 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

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Anthony Desmond Duffy Individual · British · DOB 03/1948 · age 78	25–50%	25–50%	board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control	06/04/2016
Mrs Sheila Duffy Individual · British · DOB 10/1958 · age 68	25–50%	25–50%	board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control	06/04/2016

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

Incorporated2011-03-28

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC75000 — Veterinary activities

Registered office

39/43 Bridge Street

Swinton

Mexborough

South Yorkshire

S64 8AP

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-04-11

Last: 2026-03-28

Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)

DUFFY, Anthony Desmond→

director · ~78y · appointed 2011-03-28

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DUFFY, Sheila→

director · ~68y · appointed 2011-03-28

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:3 of 3 shown

		Type	Properties
outstanding	Barclays Barclays Bank PLC	A registered charge	1 property	19/12/2014	—
outstanding	Barclays Barclays Bank PLC	A registered charge	1 property	19/12/2014	—
outstanding	Barclays Barclays Bank PLC	A registered charge	—	05/12/2014	—

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