ADRIANNA PAPELL UK LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
07867765 · ltd · incorporated 2011-12-01
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 Dec 2024
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Wholesale of clothing and footwear
Sector: Wholesale & retail
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
- 47710Retail sale of clothing in specialised stores
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 65-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 65). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).
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Refinance opportunity
1 live charge · oldest 0.2y
50/100
clean up first
Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.
- · Newest facility, 0.2 years old — likely still in initial term.
- · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
- · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.
Data confidence
Overall: medium (70/100)Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.
Company profile
address, 2 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
4 officers (3 active, 4 linked, 4 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)
35
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
46 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
75
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
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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 | 2024-12-31 | 2023-12-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Average employees | 7 | — |
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.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
- • 1 mortgage
Last 180 days
5
filings
- • 1 mortgage
- • 1 resolution
- • 1 incorporation
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand
- 2026-03-19📄mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-datemortgage · MR01
- 2026-03-16🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Truist Bank as Agent and Security Trustee
- 2026-02-23📄resolutionresolution · RESOLUTIONS
- 2026-02-23📄memorandum-articlesincorporation · MA
- 2025-12-18📄accounts-with-accounts-type-groupaccounts · AA
- 2025-01-20📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2024-08-01📄accounts-with-accounts-type-groupaccounts · AA
- 2024-06-03📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2024-04-04📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2024-01-13📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2023-07-31📄accounts-with-accounts-type-groupaccounts · AA
- 2022-09-26📄accounts-with-accounts-type-smallaccounts · AA
- 2021-08-25📄accounts-with-accounts-type-smallaccounts · AA
- 2021-02-11📄accounts-with-accounts-type-smallaccounts · AA
- 2020-01-03📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2020-01-03📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2019-08-22📄accounts-with-accounts-type-smallaccounts · AA
- 2019-05-30📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2019-02-22📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2019-01-01➕REID, Susan Elizabeth appointeddirector
- 2018-12-31➖MAY, Joy Elizabeth resigneddirector
- 2015-05-26➕MAY, Joy Elizabeth appointeddirector
- 2011-12-01🏢Company incorporatedAs ADRIANNA PAPELL UK LIMITED
- 2011-12-01➕BERKMAN, Adam appointeddirector
- 2011-12-01➕BERKMAN LIPMAN, Jaynee appointeddirector
Owner dependency
65/100
High — earn-out structure requiredMaterial founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.
FACTORS
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 65 — succession pressure is live.
Succession & seller-readiness
63/100
Strong succession signalMultiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 65. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
- secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 15 years.
- supportingClean filings + long tenure: Disciplined long-tenure operator — classic lifestyle-business pattern that often sells quietly.
Red flags
cleanNo red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)
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🔒Tailored diligence questions
7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →🔒Advanced scoring suite
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2011-12-01
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC46420 — Wholesale of clothing and footwear
Registered office
2 Leman Street
London
E1W 9US
United Kingdom
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-12-15
Last: 2025-12-01
Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)
BERKMAN, Adam→
Activedirector · ~60y · appointed 2011-12-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
BERKMAN LIPMAN, Jaynee→
Activedirector · ~61y · appointed 2011-12-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
REID, Susan Elizabeth→
Activedirector · ~65y · appointed 2019-01-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
MAY, Joy Elizabeth→
Resigneddirector · ~71y · appointed 2015-05-26 · resigned 2018-12-31
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Mortgages & charges
1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Truist Bank as Agent and Security Trustee | A registered charge | 1 property | 16/03/2026 | — |
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Recent filings (46 total)
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2026-03-19
resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2026-02-23
memorandum-articles
incorporation · MA
2026-02-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-01-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2025-12-18
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-01-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-01-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2024-08-01
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-06-03
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2024-04-04
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2024-01-13
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-12-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-group
accounts · AA
2023-07-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-12-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2022-09-26