BASELINE OFFICE FURNITURE LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
10122497 · ltd · incorporated 2016-04-13
Investment thesis
Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.
Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.
Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.
Opportunity decay
hardening · 12-months
Already tight — no obvious softening catalysts on the horizon.
  • · Thesis: well-run, low negotiation leverage
🔒Estimated value
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year to Jan 2025
Net worth
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Opportunity
79/100
Strong
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What this business does
Primary activity: Manufacture of office and shop furniture
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 76-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 79/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 76). 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
3 officers (3 active, 3 linked, 3 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
9 connected companies via shared directors
72
Filing history
24 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
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Net Worth
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Jan 2024Jan 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-01-312024-01-31
Average employees300300

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

1 signal 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
3
filings
  • • 2 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 miscellaneous
Last 180 days
3
filings
  • • 2 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 miscellaneous
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (18 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-05-05
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    replacement-filing-of-confirmation-statement-with-made-up-date
    confirmation-statement · RP01CS01
  2. 2026-04-22
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    legacy
    miscellaneous · RP01PSC01
  3. 2025-08-07
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2024-08-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2023-09-07
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2022-07-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2021-10-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2021-06-16
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  9. 2020-09-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2019-10-14
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2018-10-05
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2017-11-02
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2016-06-23
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    change-account-reference-date-company-current-shortened
    accounts · AA01
  14. 2016-04-13
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    Company incorporated
    As BASELINE OFFICE FURNITURE LIMITED
  15. 2016-04-13
    ➕
    CLARKE, Robert John appointed
    director
  16. 2016-04-13
    ➕
    HULL, John appointed
    director
  17. 2016-04-13
    ➕
    JOWETT, Julian Andrew appointed
    director
  18. 2016-04-13
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    incorporation-company
    incorporation · NEWINC

Owner dependency

65/100
High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 76 — succession pressure is live.

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 76 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.)

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
John Hull
Individual · British · DOB 03/1950 · age 76
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control13/04/2016

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
Incorporated2016-04-13
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC31010 — Manufacture of office and shop furniture

Registered office

Britannia Way
Glews Hollow
Goole
North Humberside
DN14 6ES
United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-10-31
Last made up to: 2025-01-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-26
Last: 2026-04-12

Officers (3 active · 0 resigned)

CLARKE, Robert John→
director · ~54y · appointed 2016-04-13
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Active
HULL, John→
director · ~76y · appointed 2016-04-13
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Active
JOWETT, Julian Andrew→
director · ~50y · appointed 2016-04-13
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Active

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Recent filings (24 total)

replacement-filing-of-confirmation-statement-with-made-up-date
confirmation-statement · RP01CS01
2026-05-05
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-27
legacy
miscellaneous · RP01PSC01
2026-04-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-08-07
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-08-16
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-09-07
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-04-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-07-01
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-04-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-10-25
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2021-06-16
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-05-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-09-15