CANYON EUROPE LIMITED

📈Growthactive

NI019880 · ltd · incorporated 1986-09-24

Investment thesis

Growth-phase business — story-led; valuation sensitive to momentum.

Why interesting: Trading is scaling; acquirers paying for trajectory get disproportionate leverage.

Why risky: Price often leads fundamentals; dependency on founder often high.

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

£9.36M

year to Dec 2024

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

79/100

Strong

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 22290

Sector: Manufacturing

Investor take

Pursue

Leverage-led grower with a 70-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 79/100 (strong), bankability 57/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 70). Biggest value-creation lever: Consolidate lender relationships. 4 distinct lenders creates friction — refinance into single-lender structure for cleaner diligence. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (77/100).

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Refinance opportunity

5 live charges · 4 lenders · oldest 36.6y

45/100

clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

· Oldest live charge is 36.6 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· 4 lenders named — inter-creditor friction likely.
· Legal-friction score 40/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.
· Profitable and stable/growing — lender coverage supportable.

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

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

Lenders & charges

5 charges (5/5 with lender, 5/5 with type)

Directors & officers

17 officers (4 active, 17 linked, 16 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared

Director network

1 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

140 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Opportunity Score

79/100Strong

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.

Business quality

Adequate — check latest filings for context.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102

Profitable

Profit before tax £604,000

Strong revenue growth

Turnover up 18% YoY

Turned profitable

Returned to profit this year

Turnover YoY

+18%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2024-12-31	2023-12-31
Turnover	£9.36M	£7.94M
Gross profit	£1.45M	£879.0k
Operating profit	£334.0k	£-294.0k
Profit before tax	£604.0k	£-132.0k
Average employees	7600	6600

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

filings

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 officers

Last 180 days

filings

• 2 officers
• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (51 events)Click to expand

2026-02-26
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officers · AP01
2026-02-23
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TADA, Keiko appointed
director
2026-01-07
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officers · TM01
2026-01-06
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TADA, Mieko resigned
director
2025-09-30
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2024-09-26
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2023-09-27
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2022-09-22
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2021-09-21
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2020-10-05
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2019-10-01
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2018-10-02
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2017-09-05
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accounts · AA
2017-02-02
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officers · TM01
2017-01-31
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RYAN, Neil resigned
director
2016-12-07
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officers · AP01
2016-12-06
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officers · TM01
2016-11-15
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SATOH, Naoko appointed
director
2016-11-15
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MATSUURA, Kazuya resigned
director
2016-09-29
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2015-05-03
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TADA, Tetsuya resigned
director
2015-01-01
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MATSUURA, Kazuya appointed
director
2014-12-01
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RYAN, Neil appointed
director
2012-05-07
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TADA, Mieko appointed
director
2012-01-30
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OMOTO, Akio resigned
director
2012-01-30
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TADA, Atsushi resigned
director
2011-07-15
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KOHNO, Yoshio resigned
director
2011-07-15
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OMOTO, Akio appointed
director
2009-04-19
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BROWNLEE, Peter resigned
director
2009-01-27
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TADA, Atsushi appointed
director
2009-01-26
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NISHIYAMA, Shigeo resigned
director
2007-08-01
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BROWNLEE, Peter appointed
director
2001-12-01
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ROSS, Hugh appointed
director
2001-11-12
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KOHNO, Yoshio appointed
director
2001-11-12
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NISHIYAMA, Shigeo appointed
director
2001-11-12
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TADA, Atushi resigned
director
2001-06-30
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NAKAMURA, Akira resigned
director
2001-05-31
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OKAMURA, Toshiiko resigned
director
2000-04-30
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LYNCH, Michael Patrick appointed
secretary
2000-04-20
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HAYAKAWA, Tsuyoshi resigned
director
2000-03-07
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OKAMURA, Toshiiko appointed
director
1996-10-28
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Charge registered #5
Lender: Ulster Bank LTD
1992-03-19
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Charge registered #4
Lender: Dept Economic Dev.
1990-10-11
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Charge registered #3
Lender: Industrial Develop-
1989-10-11
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Charge registered #2
Lender: Ulster Bank LTD
1989-10-11
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Ulster Invest. Bank
1986-10-16
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TADA, Tetsuya appointed
director
1986-09-24
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Company incorporated
As CANYON EUROPE LIMITED
1986-09-24
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HAYAKAWA, Tsuyoshi appointed
director
1986-09-24
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NAKAMURA, Akira appointed
director

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Owner dependency

75/100

High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS

+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 24 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 70 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

80/100

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 70 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 24 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
supportingClean filings + long tenure: Disciplined long-tenure operator — classic lifestyle-business pattern that often sells quietly.

Red flags

1 low

5 live charges

low

Heavily leveraged with multiple live security positions — understand the capital structure before proceeding.

Group structure

Canyon Corporation is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Canyon Corporation

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares

ultimate parent

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CANYON EUROPE LIMITED

This company · NI019880

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%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Canyon Corporation Corporate entity	75–100%	—	75-100% shares	06/04/2016

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

🔒Co-director network graph

Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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8 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated1986-09-24

Jurisdictionnorthern-ireland

Primary SIC22290 — SIC 22290

Registered office

4,Mallusk Road,

Newtownabbey,

Co.Antrim

BT36 4PR

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-09-30

Last made up to: 2024-12-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-01-14

Last: 2025-12-31

Officers (4 active · 13 resigned)

LYNCH, Michael Patrick→

secretary · appointed 2000-04-30

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Active

ROSS, Hugh→

director · ~70y · appointed 2001-12-01

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

SATOH, Naoko→

director · ~59y · appointed 2016-11-15

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Active

TADA, Keiko→

director · ~62y · appointed 2026-02-23

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Active

BROWNLEE, Peter→

director · ~58y · appointed 2007-08-01 · resigned 2009-04-19

Resigned

HAYAKAWA, Tsuyoshi→

director · ~83y · appointed 1986-09-24 · resigned 2000-04-20

Resigned

KOHNO, Yoshio→

director · ~76y · appointed 2001-11-12 · resigned 2011-07-15

Resigned

MATSUURA, Kazuya→

director · ~68y · appointed 2015-01-01 · resigned 2016-11-15

Resigned

NAKAMURA, Akira→

director · ~86y · appointed 1986-09-24 · resigned 2001-06-30

Resigned

NISHIYAMA, Shigeo→

director · ~67y · appointed 2001-11-12 · resigned 2009-01-26

Resigned

OKAMURA, Toshiiko→

director · ~73y · appointed 2000-03-07 · resigned 2001-05-31

Resigned

OMOTO, Akio→

director · ~79y · appointed 2011-07-15 · resigned 2012-01-30

Resigned

RYAN, Neil→

director · ~48y · appointed 2014-12-01 · resigned 2017-01-31

Resigned

TADA, Atsushi→

director · ~61y · appointed 2009-01-27 · resigned 2012-01-30

Resigned

TADA, Atushi→

director · ~61y · appointed 1986-09-24 · resigned 2001-11-12

Resigned

TADA, Mieko→

director · ~86y · appointed 2012-05-07 · resigned 2026-01-06

Resigned

TADA, Tetsuya→

director · ~95y · appointed 1986-10-16 · resigned 2015-05-03

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:5 of 5 shown

		Type	Properties
outstanding	NatWest Group Ulster Bank LTD	Mortgage or charge	1 property	28/10/1996	—
outstanding	Dept Economic Dev.	Mortgage or charge	1 property	19/03/1992	—
outstanding	Industrial Develop-	Mortgage or charge	2 properties	11/10/1990	—
outstanding	NatWest Group Ulster Bank LTD	Mortgage or charge	2 properties	11/10/1989	—
outstanding	Ulster Invest. Bank	Mortgage or charge	2 properties	11/10/1989	—

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Recent filings (140 total)

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officers · AP01

2026-02-26

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confirmation-statement · CS01

2026-01-13

termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date

officers · TM01

2026-01-07

accounts-with-accounts-type-full

accounts · AA

2025-09-30

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2025-01-08

accounts-with-accounts-type-full

accounts · AA

2024-09-26

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2024-02-01

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accounts · AA

2023-09-27

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2023-02-07

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accounts · AA

2022-09-22

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2022-01-20

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accounts · AA

2021-09-21

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2021-02-12

accounts-with-accounts-type-full

accounts · AA

2020-10-05

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2020-01-14