TAILORED IMAGE LTD

📈Growthactive

NI034580 · ltd · incorporated 1998-08-03

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.

Why now

Window steady · low confidence

Stable recent picture — watch for any upcoming trigger event.

What changed my view

Last 30 days

No material changes in the last 30 days.

Last 90 days

No snapshot from 90 days ago — start tracking from today.

Last 180 days

No snapshot from 180 days ago — start tracking from today.

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

£20.80M

year to Dec 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 46160

Sector: Wholesale & retail

Investor take

Pursue

Conservative operator with a 64-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 67/100. Strong seller-intent signal (60/100, director aged 64). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Consolidate lender relationships. 3 distinct lenders creates friction — refinance into single-lender structure for cleaner diligence. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (78/100).

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Refinance opportunity

4 live charges · 3 lenders · oldest 26.7y

45/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 26.7 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· 3 lenders named — inter-creditor friction likely.
· Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.
· Profitable and stable/growing — lender coverage supportable.

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

Lenders & charges

4 charges (4/4 with lender, 4/4 with type)

Directors & officers

8 officers (8 active, 8 linked, 7 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 4 total, 4 with control declared

Director network

6 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

115 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

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

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102

Profitable

Profit before tax £1,343,596

Strong revenue growth

Turnover up 24% YoY

Turnover YoY

+24%

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	2025-12-31	2024-12-31
Turnover	£20.80M	£16.71M
Gross profit	£4.58M	£3.40M
Operating profit	£1.41M	£1.19M
Profit before tax	£1.34M	£1.12M
Average employees	11400	10500

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

2 signals 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

filings

• 3 officers
• 1 miscellaneous

Last 90 days

filings

• 3 officers
• 1 miscellaneous
• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filings

• 3 officers
• 1 miscellaneous
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (37 events)Click to expand

2026-06-18
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legacy
miscellaneous · RP01SH01
2026-06-18
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officers · AP01
2026-06-18
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officers · AP01
2026-06-18
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officers · AP01
2026-06-12
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CONDELL, Richard Jeffrey appointed
director
2026-06-12
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GREENE, Eugene Patrick appointed
director
2026-06-12
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MCGUCKIAN, Brigid Mary appointed
director
2026-05-22
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accounts-with-accounts-type-medium
accounts · AA
2025-07-18
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accounts-with-accounts-type-medium
accounts · AA
2024-07-04
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change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2024-07-01
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accounts-with-accounts-type-medium
accounts · AA
2024-06-10
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-06-10
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-06-10
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-06-10
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-06-10
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change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2024-01-11
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address · AD01
2023-11-09
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mortgage · MR04
2023-11-09
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Charge satisfied #2
2023-10-11
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mortgage · MR01
2023-10-06
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Charge registered #4
Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
2023-06-08
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2022-08-04
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cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2022-08-04
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cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2022-08-04
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cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2022-08-04
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2022-06-27
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Charge satisfied #3
2022-05-05
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Charge registered #3
Lender: Northern Bank Limited
2013-01-08
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DONNELLY, Peter appointed
director
2011-06-09
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Charge satisfied #1
2011-02-01
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Charge registered #2
Lender: Northern Bank Limited
2008-08-04
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BIRT, Bernard Joseph appointed
director
2002-02-25
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BIRT, Brendan appointed
director
1999-11-15
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Aib Group (UK) PLC
1998-08-03
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Company incorporated
As TAILORED IMAGE LTD
1998-08-03
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BIRT, Bernard Joseph appointed
secretary
1998-08-03
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BIRT, Cecelia Anne appointed
director

Owner dependency

66/100

High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS

-7 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.
+Senior director age: Director aged approximately 64 — approaching natural succession window.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

70/100

Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 64. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 28 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 med ·

Charge satisfaction-then-recreation pattern

medium

Multiple instances where a charge was satisfied and a new charge created within 6 months. Suggests active refinancing cycle.

Group structure

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

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Tailored Image Holdings Ltd

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares

ultimate parent

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TAILORED IMAGE LTD

This company · NI034580

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
Tailored Image Holdings Ltd Corporate entity	75–100%	75–100%	75-100% shares · 75-100% voting	04/07/2022

3 historic (ceased) PSCs

Mr Brendan Birtceased 04/07/2022· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting
Cecelia Anne Birtceased 04/07/2022· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting
Mr Bernard Joseph Birtceased 04/07/2022· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting

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.

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6 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

Incorporated1998-08-03

Jurisdictionnorthern-ireland

Primary SIC46160 — SIC 46160

Registered office

Unit 3 Granville Industrial Estate

Dungannon

BT70 1NJ

Northern Ireland

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-09-30

Last made up to: 2025-12-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-08-17

Last: 2025-08-03