AROMOSS LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
09068769 · ltd · incorporated 2014-06-03
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 9.0y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒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: SIC 10390
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 80-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 80). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).
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Refinance opportunity
1 live charge · oldest 9.0y
85/100
ready
Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.
- · Oldest live charge is 9.0 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
75
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
2 officers (2 active, 2 linked, 2 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
3 active PSC(s) of 5 total, 5 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
54 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 | 3 | 300 |
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
2
filings
- • 1 persons-with-significant-control
- • 1 officers
Last 90 days
2
filings
- • 1 persons-with-significant-control
- • 1 officers
Last 180 days
6
filings
- • 5 persons-with-significant-control
- • 1 officers
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
- 2026-05-11📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2026-05-11📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2025-12-03📄withdrawal-of-a-person-with-significant-control-statementpersons-with-significant-control · PSC09
- 2025-12-03📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control-statementpersons-with-significant-control · PSC08
- 2025-12-03📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC01
- 2025-12-03📄cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC07
- 2025-09-22📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2025-04-14📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC01
- 2024-08-12📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-07-03📄mortgage-satisfy-charge-fullmortgage · MR04
- 2024-07-03🔓Charge satisfied #1
- 2023-03-16📄change-account-reference-date-company-current-extendedaccounts · AA01
- 2023-03-09📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-06-09📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2022-06-09📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2022-03-17📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-09-08📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2021-06-29📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-02-19📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2021-02-19📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2017-05-26🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Svenska Handelsbanken Ab (Publ)
- 2014-06-03🏢Company incorporatedAs AROMOSS LIMITED
- 2014-06-03➕HENRY, Bruce Stewart appointeddirector
- 2014-06-03➕KEVILL, Andrew Edward appointeddirector
Owner dependency
78/100
High — earn-out structure requiredMaterial founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.
FACTORS
- +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 80 — succession pressure is live.
- +No director turnover: Company is 12 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.
Succession & seller-readiness
71/100
Strong succession signalMultiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 80 years old. Natural succession window is now.
- secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
- 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.)
Shareholders & ownership
3 active beneficial owners| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mr Georg Wolfgang Buch Individual · German · DOB 05/1965 · age 61 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 14/04/2025 |
Mr Bruce Stewart Henry Individual · British · DOB 11/1946 · age 80 | — | — | sig. influencesignificant influence | 06/04/2016 |
Mr Andrew Edward Kevill Individual · British · DOB 11/1948 · age 78 | — | — | sig. influencesignificant influence | 06/04/2016 |
2 historic (ceased) PSCs
- Mark James Rutherfordceased 14/04/2025· 50-75% shares · 50-75% voting
- Mr Georg Wolfgang Buchceased 14/02/2019· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
🔒Co-director network graph
Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
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Peers ranked by estimated value, then turnover, then opportunity score.See all →
🔒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
Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2014-06-03
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC10390 — SIC 10390
Registered office
Charlotte House Stanier Way
Wyvern Business Park
Derby
DE21 6BF
England
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-06-08
Last: 2025-05-25
Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)
HENRY, Bruce Stewart→
Activedirector · ~80y · appointed 2014-06-03
View their other companies + combined net worth →
KEVILL, Andrew Edward→
Activedirector · ~78y · appointed 2014-06-03
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Click a director name to see their full track record across all companies.
Mortgages & charges
1
Total charges
0
Outstanding
0
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| satisfied | Svenska Handelsbanken Ab (Publ) | A registered charge | — | 26/05/2017 | 03/07/2024 |
Recent filings (54 total)
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2026-05-11
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-05-11
withdrawal-of-a-person-with-significant-control-statement
persons-with-significant-control · PSC09
2025-12-03
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control-statement
persons-with-significant-control · PSC08
2025-12-03
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2025-12-03
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2025-12-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-09-22
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-05-27
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2025-04-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-08-12
mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2024-07-03
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-05-30
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-05-31
change-account-reference-date-company-current-extended
accounts · AA01
2023-03-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-03-09