ACTIVE VOICE CORPORATION
🌳Matureactive
FC016616 · oversea-company · incorporated 1992-04-22
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
—
not disclosed
Net worth
—
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 88-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 88). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).
Data confidence
Overall: low (44/100)Sparse data coverage. Treat AI-generated outputs as preliminary. Manual diligence essential.
Company profile
address, no SIC, incorporation date
80
Financials
No iXBRL financials extracted
0
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
4 officers (4 active, 4 linked, 3 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)
35
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
3 filings
60
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional
Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.
Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
85
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
80
Good data coverage for analysis.
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 (8 events)Click to expand
- 2013-04-09📄miscellaneousmiscellaneous · MISC
- 1992-07-10➕GRECO, Robert appointedsecretary
- 1992-07-10➕KAWAGUCHI, Harold appointeddirector
- 1992-07-10➕RICHMOND, Robert L. appointeddirector
- 1992-07-10➕SHEALY, Eric appointeddirector
- 1992-07-10📍legacyaddress · BUSADD
- 1992-07-10📄legacyincorporation · 691
- 1992-04-22🏢Company incorporatedAs ACTIVE VOICE CORPORATION
Owner dependency
75/100
High — earn-out structure requiredMaterial founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.
FACTORS
- +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 34 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 88 — succession pressure is live.
Succession & seller-readiness
90/100
Likely off-market candidateStrong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 88 years old. Natural succession window is now.
- primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 34 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 34 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.
- 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.)
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Statusactive
Typeoversea-company
Incorporated1992-04-22
Jurisdictionunited-kingdom
Primary SIC—
Registered office
Peter Dunning
18 Tristan Gardents
Rusthall , Tunbridge Wells
Kent ,
TN4 8PD
Filing status
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Officers (4 active · 0 resigned)
Active
KAWAGUCHI, Harold→
Activedirector · ~88y · appointed 1992-07-10
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RICHMOND, Robert L.→
Activedirector · ~76y · appointed 1992-07-10
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SHEALY, Eric→
Activedirector · ~63y · appointed 1992-07-10
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Recent filings (3 total)
miscellaneous
miscellaneous · MISC
2013-04-09
legacy
address · BUSADD
1992-07-10
legacy
incorporation · 691
1992-07-10