FUTAMURA CHEMICAL UK LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

10042418 · ltd · incorporated 2016-03-03

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.

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

£55.73M

year to Dec 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

78/100

Strong

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What this business does

Primary activity: Other manufacturing n.e.c.

Sector: Manufacturing

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 65-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 78/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. 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).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (71/100)

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

1 year of iXBRL accounts extracted (no YoY comparison) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

18 officers (8 active, 18 linked, 14 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared

Director network

1 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

56 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

🔒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

78/100Strong

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

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

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102

Loss-making

Loss before tax £9,392,000

Key financials

1 year extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

—

Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-12-31
Turnover	£55.73M
Gross profit	£2.62M
Operating profit	£-8.43M
Profit before tax	£-9.39M
Average employees	28300

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

3 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

filing

• 1 capital

Last 90 days

filings

• 2 officers
• 1 capital
• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filings

• 2 officers
• 1 capital
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (48 events)Click to expand

2026-06-18
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capital · SH01
2026-06-08
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officers · AP01
2026-06-08
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officers · TM01
2026-06-01
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COWAN, Amaia appointed
director
2026-06-01
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SWEETMAN, Andrew Neil resigned
director
2026-04-23
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2026-01-14
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-22
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capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2025-07-08
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2025-07-01
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GOTO, Nobuyoshi resigned
director
2024-09-09
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2024-07-10
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officers · AP01
2024-07-01
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JACKSON, Ross appointed
director
2023-11-15
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capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2023-09-18
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-04-20
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2023-04-20
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officers · AP01
2023-04-07
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NOMURA, Masaki appointed
director
2023-04-07
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KIDA, Osamu resigned
director
2023-01-19
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termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2023-01-19
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appoint-person-secretary-company-with-name-date
officers · AP03
2023-01-12
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JACKSON, Ross appointed
secretary
2023-01-12
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CAVE, Adrian Jon resigned
secretary
2022-07-05
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2021-09-20
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2021-07-12
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2021-07-12
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2021-06-30
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COULTHARD, Graeme resigned
director
2021-01-01
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CAVE, Adrian Jon appointed
director
2021-01-01
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DUCKWORTH, Andrew James appointed
director
2021-01-01
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KUROSE, Fujio appointed
director
2021-01-01
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KIDA, Osamu appointed
director
2021-01-01
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NAGAE, Yasuo resigned
director
2021-01-01
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SATO, Gen resigned
director
2021-01-01
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SWEETMAN, Andrew Neil appointed
director
2017-07-14
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CAVE, Adrian Jon appointed
secretary
2017-07-14
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PETTITT, Barry John resigned
secretary
2017-07-14
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COULTHARD, Graeme appointed
director
2017-07-14
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FELL, Jonathan Keith resigned
director
2016-06-06
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SATO, Gen appointed
director
2016-05-13
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SAKAMOTO, Takashi appointed
director
2016-05-13
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PETTITT, Barry John appointed
secretary
2016-05-13
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SAKAMOTO, Takashi resigned
secretary
2016-05-13
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FELL, Jonathan Keith appointed
director
2016-03-03
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Company incorporated
As FUTAMURA CHEMICAL UK LIMITED
2016-03-03
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SAKAMOTO, Takashi appointed
secretary
2016-03-03
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GOTO, Nobuyoshi appointed
director
2016-03-03
➕
NAGAE, Yasuo appointed
director

Owner dependency

55/100

Moderate — manageable with handover

Some founder dependency, but not acute. A structured handover period should cover most risk.

FACTORS

-7 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 65 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

55/100

Strong succession signal

Multiple 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.
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

Futamura Chemical Co., Ltd is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Futamura Chemical Co., Ltd

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control

ultimate parent

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FUTAMURA CHEMICAL UK LIMITED

This company · 10042418

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

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Futamura Chemical Co., Ltd Corporate entity	75–100%	75–100%	board controlsig. influence75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control · significant influence · firm interest	06/04/2016

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.

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8 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2016-03-03

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC32990 — Other manufacturing n.e.c.

Registered office

Station Road

Wigton

Cumbria

CA7 9BG

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-09-30

Last made up to: 2025-12-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-03-11

Last: 2026-02-25