S.H. COLEMAN (GLARRYFORD) LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
NI014161 · ltd · incorporated 1980-03-06
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 Nov 2024
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 10611
Sector: Manufacturing
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 10910SIC 10910
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 80-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 80). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (77/100)

Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.

Company profile
address, 2 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
4 officers (2 active, 4 linked, 3 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
102 filings on record
85
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
80
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
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Net Worth
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Nov 2023Nov 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2024-11-302023-11-30
Average employees900900

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

3 signals detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
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Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (22 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-08-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-08-28
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    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-05-08
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  4. 2024-05-08
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  5. 2023-05-02
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2022-07-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2021-07-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2020-08-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2019-07-08
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2018-07-06
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    accounts · AA
  11. 2017-06-08
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    accounts · AA
  12. 2016-06-29
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    accounts · AA
  13. 2015-10-05
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    annual-return · AR01
  14. 2015-08-18
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    accounts · AA
  15. 2014-10-13
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    annual-return · AR01
  16. 2014-03-26
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    COLEMAN, Robert Alexander appointed
    director
  17. 2014-03-26
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    COLEMAN, Heather Elizabeth resigned
    secretary
  18. 2014-03-26
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    COLEMAN, Heather Elizabeth resigned
    director
  19. 1980-03-06
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    Company incorporated
    As S.H. COLEMAN (GLARRYFORD) LIMITED
  20. 1980-03-06
    ➕
    COLEMAN, Samuel Hall appointed
    director
  21. 1980-03-06
    ➕
    COLEMAN, Heather Elizabeth appointed
    secretary
  22. 1980-03-06
    ➕
    COLEMAN, Heather Elizabeth appointed
    director

Owner dependency

100/100
Critical — business is the founder

The business appears inseparable from the founder. Acquisition without a serious earn-out or meaningful transition period would likely destroy value.

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "COLEMAN" — strong identity link between founder and business.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 46 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 80 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

96/100
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 80 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 46 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 46 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.)

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Samuel Hall Coleman
Individual · British · DOB 12/1946 · age 80
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting28/09/2023
Mr Robert Alexander Coleman
Individual · British · DOB 10/1975 · age 51
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting28/09/2016

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
Incorporated1980-03-06
Jurisdictionnorthern-ireland
Primary SIC10611 — SIC 10611

Registered office

160 Dunminning Road
Glarryford
Ballymena
Co.Antrim
BT44 9ET

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-08-31
Last made up to: 2024-11-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-10-12
Last: 2025-09-28

Officers (2 active · 2 resigned)

COLEMAN, Robert Alexander→
director · ~51y · appointed 2014-03-26
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
COLEMAN, Samuel Hall→
director · ~80y · appointed 1980-03-06
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
COLEMAN, Heather Elizabeth→
secretary · appointed 1980-03-06 · resigned 2014-03-26
Resigned
COLEMAN, Heather Elizabeth→
director · ~81y · appointed 1980-03-06 · resigned 2014-03-26
Resigned

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Recent filings (102 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-10-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-08-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-09-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-08-28
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2024-05-08
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2024-05-08
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-10-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-05-02
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-10-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-07-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-10-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-07-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-10-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-08-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-10-08