ADVANCED FIBRE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.

🌳Matureactive

FC021356 · oversea-company · incorporated 1998-09-23

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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Net worth

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Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 96-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 96). 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

Financials

No iXBRL financials extracted

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

7 officers (7 active, 7 linked, 6 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)

Director network

Network not yet resolved

Filing history

4 filings

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

80/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

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.

Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filings

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (12 events)Click to expand

2004-04-21
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miscellaneous
miscellaneous · MISC
1998-10-23
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legacy
accounts · 225
1998-10-02
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DARBEE, Peter appointed
secretary
1998-10-02
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DWIGHT, Herb appointed
director
1998-10-02
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ERNST, Ruann appointed
director
1998-10-02
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GREEN, Donald appointed
director
1998-10-02
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HIGGERSON, Clifford appointed
director
1998-10-02
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RASDAL, William Daniel appointed
director
1998-10-02
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SOZONOFF, Alex appointed
director
1998-10-02
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legacy
address · BUSADD
1998-10-02
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legacy
incorporation · 691
1998-09-23
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Company incorporated
As ADVANCED FIBRE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.

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

-6 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 28 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 96 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

90/100

Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 96 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 28 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 28 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

clean

No red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeoversea-company

Incorporated1998-09-23

Jurisdictionunited-kingdom

Primary SIC—

Registered office

Mr Lars Cavi

Tendercroft

Kings Lane Harwell

Oxon

OX11 0EJ

Filing status

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