EVANS AND LEWIS LTD.

🌳Matureactive
07623795 · ltd · incorporated 2011-05-05
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 May 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Activities of insurance agents and brokers
Sector: Financial & insurance
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 65-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 65). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (79/100)

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
75
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
4 officers (3 active, 4 linked, 3 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
46 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

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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.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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£0£0£0£0£0£0May 2024May 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-05-312024-05-31
Average employees8800

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (22 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-09-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-12-09
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  3. 2024-09-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-08-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2023-06-29
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    change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH03
  6. 2023-06-29
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  7. 2023-06-29
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  8. 2022-12-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2021-07-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2020-08-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2019-07-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2018-07-19
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    accounts · AAMD
  13. 2018-07-02
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2017-06-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  15. 2017-06-21
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    address · AD03
  16. 2017-06-21
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    change-sail-address-company-with-new-address
    address · AD02
  17. 2015-02-01
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    KERR, Christina Susan resigned
    director
  18. 2011-06-16
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    KERR, Christina Susan appointed
    director
  19. 2011-06-03
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    WILKINSON, Susan Caroline appointed
    director
  20. 2011-05-05
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    Company incorporated
    As EVANS AND LEWIS LTD.
  21. 2011-05-05
    ➕
    WILKINSON, Susan Caroline appointed
    secretary
  22. 2011-05-05
    ➕
    WILKINSON, Evan Lewis 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 15 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 65 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

79/100
Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 65. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • 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

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Evan Lewis Wilkinson
Individual · British · DOB 05/1967 · age 59
75–100%
75–100%75-100% shares · 75-100% voting06/04/2016

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
Incorporated2011-05-05
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC66220 — Activities of insurance agents and brokers

Registered office

Holborn Court
Bridge Street
Newcastle Under Lyme
Staffs
ST5 2RX

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-02-28
Last made up to: 2025-05-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-06-28
Last: 2026-06-14

Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)

WILKINSON, Susan Caroline→
secretary · appointed 2011-05-05
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Active
WILKINSON, Evan Lewis→
director · ~59y · appointed 2011-05-05
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Active
WILKINSON, Susan Caroline→
director · ~65y · appointed 2011-06-03
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
KERR, Christina Susan→
director · ~62y · appointed 2011-06-16 · resigned 2015-02-01
Resigned

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Recent filings (46 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-06-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-09-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-06-27
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-12-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-09-16
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-06-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-08-04
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2023-06-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-06-29
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-06-29
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-06-29
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-07-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-07-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-06-21