DC21 MARS SPV LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
09505214 · ltd · incorporated 2015-03-24
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 Dec 2024
Net worth
book net assets
Opportunity
79/100
Strong
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 35110
Sector: Electricity, gas & energy
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 72-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 79/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 72). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: high (82/100)

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
4 officers (4 active, 4 linked, 4 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
3 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
10 connected companies via shared directors
75
Filing history
31 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
79/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.

Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
75
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
Net Worth
Current Assets
Current Liabilities
£0£0£0£0£0£0Dec 2023Dec 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-12-312023-12-31
Average employees4400

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (20 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-11-05
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-09-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2023-09-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2022-09-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2021-09-14
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2020-08-10
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2019-09-02
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2018-09-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2018-03-28
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
  10. 2018-03-28
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  11. 2017-06-06
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    accounts · AA
  12. 2016-10-27
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    capital · SH01
  13. 2016-10-26
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    resolution
    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  14. 2016-07-25
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    accounts · AA
  15. 2016-04-08
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    annual-return · AR01
  16. 2015-06-03
    REDMAN, Amanda Jayne appointed
    director
  17. 2015-06-03
    REDMAN, David Arthur appointed
    director
  18. 2015-06-03
    ROCHE, Howard Anthony appointed
    director
  19. 2015-03-24
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As DC21 MARS SPV LIMITED
  20. 2015-03-24
    DARE, Kevin John appointed
    director

Owner dependency

63/100
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.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 72 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

65/100
Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 72 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • 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.)

Group structure

2 corporate shareholders identified. Group structure is distributed.

🏛️
Dc21 Limited
Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares
significant stake
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Ashton Smith Associates Llp
Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares
significant stake
DC21 MARS SPV LIMITED
This company · 09505214

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

3 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mrs Amanda Jayne Redman
Individual · British · DOB 11/1964 · age 62
2550%
25-50% shares22/06/2016
Dc21 Limited
Corporate entity
2550%
25-50% shares22/06/2016
Ashton Smith Associates Llp
Corporate entity
2550%
25-50% shares06/04/2016

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
Incorporated2015-03-24
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC35110 — SIC 35110

Registered office

Dene House North Road
Kirkburton
Huddersfield
West Yorkshire
HD8 0RW
United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-07
Last: 2026-03-24

Officers (4 active · 0 resigned)

DARE, Kevin John
director · ~63y · appointed 2015-03-24
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Active
REDMAN, Amanda Jayne
director · ~62y · appointed 2015-06-03
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Active
REDMAN, David Arthur
director · ~72y · appointed 2015-06-03
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Active
ROCHE, Howard Anthony
director · ~70y · appointed 2015-06-03
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Active

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Recent filings (31 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-11-05
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-09-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-05-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-09-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-05-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-09-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-04-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-09-14
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-05-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-08-10
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-03-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-09-02
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-04-05