ASTRA DOOR CONTROLS LTD

🏛️Establishedactive
11496741 · ltd · incorporated 2018-08-02
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 7.1y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
year to Jan 2025
Net worth
book net assets
Opportunity
79/100
Strong
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 25990
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 76-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 79/100 (strong), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (60/100, director aged 76). 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 7.1y

85/100
ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

  • · Oldest live charge is 7.1 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (81/100)

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
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
3 connected companies via shared directors
54
Filing history
20 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
65
Adequate — check latest filings for context.
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 accounts
Cash
Net Worth
Current Assets
Current Liabilities
£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 employees111100

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
0
filings
Last 180 days
0
filings
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (17 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-10-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-10-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-02-05
    ✏️
    certificate-change-of-name-company
    change-of-name · CERTNM
  4. 2024-02-05
    ✏️
    change-of-name-notice
    change-of-name · CONNOT
  5. 2023-10-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2022-06-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2021-08-11
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
  8. 2021-04-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2020-09-03
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2019-12-05
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2019-09-20
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    change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
    accounts · AA01
  12. 2019-06-18
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  13. 2019-06-14
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Galeid LTD
  14. 2018-08-02
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    Company incorporated
    As ASTRA DOOR CONTROLS LTD
  15. 2018-08-02
    GALLAGHER, Philip Mark appointed
    director
  16. 2018-08-02
    REID, Alister Peter appointed
    director
  17. 2018-08-02
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    incorporation-company
    incorporation · NEWINC

Owner dependency

78/100
High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 76 — succession pressure is live.
  • +No director turnover: Company is 8 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.

Succession & seller-readiness

66/100
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.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.

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

Galeid Holdings Ltd is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Galeid Holdings Ltd
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control
ultimate parent
ASTRA DOOR CONTROLS LTD
This company · 11496741

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%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Galeid Holdings Ltd
Corporate entity
75100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control02/08/2018

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

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7 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
Incorporated2018-08-02
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC25990 — SIC 25990

Registered office

Unit 4, Astra Business Centre Roman Way
Ribbleton
Preston
Lancashire
PR2 5AP
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-10-31
Last made up to: 2025-01-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-08-15
Last: 2025-08-01

Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)

GALLAGHER, Philip Mark
director · ~63y · appointed 2018-08-02
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Active
REID, Alister Peter
director · ~76y · appointed 2018-08-02
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Active

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Galeid
Galeid LTD
A registered charge14/06/2019
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Recent filings (20 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-10-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-08-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-10-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-08-12
certificate-change-of-name-company
change-of-name · CERTNM
2024-02-05
change-of-name-notice
change-of-name · CONNOT
2024-02-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-10-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-08-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-08-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-06-01
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-08-11
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2021-08-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-04-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-09-03
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-08-04