1660 PRODUCTIONS LTD
🌳Matureactive
10114648 · ltd · incorporated 2016-04-10
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 2023
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
79/100
Strong
What this business does
Primary activity: Motion picture production activities
Sector: Information & communication
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 65-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 79/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 65). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (73/100).
Data confidence
Overall: medium (73/100)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
50
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
3 officers (3 active, 3 linked, 2 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
8 connected companies via shared directors
69
Filing history
36 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.
Signals from accounts
Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102Loss-making
Loss before tax £33,188
Key financials
1 year 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 | 2023-12-31 |
|---|---|
| Profit before tax | £-33.2k |
| Average employees | 0 |
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
1
filing
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 90 days
1
filing
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
2
filings
- • 1 confirmation-statement
- • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (20 events)Click to expand
- 2025-12-11📄change-account-reference-date-company-previous-extendedaccounts · AA01
- 2025-09-04📄accounts-with-accounts-type-fullaccounts · AA
- 2025-04-29📄change-account-reference-date-company-current-shortenedaccounts · AA01
- 2024-08-01📄accounts-with-accounts-type-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-07-13📄gazette-filings-brought-up-to-dategazette · DISS40
- 2024-07-02📄gazette-notice-compulsorygazette · GAZ1
- 2023-05-22📄accounts-with-accounts-type-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-12-02✏️certificate-change-of-name-companychange-of-name · CERTNM
- 2022-04-29📄accounts-with-accounts-type-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-07-09📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2021-07-09📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2021-04-29📄accounts-with-accounts-type-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-02-08📄change-account-reference-date-company-previous-extendedaccounts · AA01
- 2020-04-16📄accounts-with-accounts-type-smallaccounts · AA
- 2019-12-18📄change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortenedaccounts · AA01
- 2019-01-04📄accounts-with-accounts-type-smallaccounts · AA
- 2016-04-10🏢Company incorporatedAs 1660 PRODUCTIONS LTD
- 2016-04-10➕BUNTING III, Joseph appointedsecretary
- 2016-04-10➕BUNTING III, Joseph appointeddirector
- 2016-04-10➕WETTSTEIN, Deborah appointeddirector
Owner dependency
73/100
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 65 — succession pressure is live.
Succession & seller-readiness
61/100
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.
- 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
1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
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Steven Rales Individual · American · DOB 03/1951 · age 75 | 75–100% | 75–100% | board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control | 10/04/2016 |
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
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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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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2016-04-10
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC59111 — Motion picture production activities
Registered office
71 Queen Victoria Street
London
EC4V 4BE
England
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-06-30
Last made up to: 2023-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-05-05
Last: 2026-04-21
Officers (3 active · 0 resigned)
BUNTING III, Joseph→
Activesecretary · appointed 2016-04-10
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BUNTING III, Joseph→
Activedirector · ~65y · appointed 2016-04-10
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WETTSTEIN, Deborah→
Activedirector · ~64y · appointed 2016-04-10
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Recent filings (36 total)
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-05-14
change-account-reference-date-company-previous-extended
accounts · AA01
2025-12-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2025-09-04
change-account-reference-date-company-current-shortened
accounts · AA01
2025-04-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2024-08-01
gazette-filings-brought-up-to-date
gazette · DISS40
2024-07-13
gazette-notice-compulsory
gazette · GAZ1
2024-07-02
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-05-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-04-11
certificate-change-of-name-company
change-of-name · CERTNM
2022-12-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2022-04-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-04-11
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2021-07-09