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.
🔒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 63-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 67/100. Strong seller-intent signal (60/100, director aged 63). 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 26.5y

45/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 26.5 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: medium (79/100)

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

Company profile
address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
4 charges (4/4 with lender, 4/4 with type)
90
Directors & officers
5 officers (5 active, 5 linked, 4 with DOB)
86
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 4 total, 4 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
111 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
🔒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
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
85
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
77
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
£0£0£0£0£0£0Dec 2024Dec 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-12-312024-12-31
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 employees1140010500

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
1
filing
  • 1 accounts
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (33 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-05-22
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  2. 2025-07-18
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  10. 2024-01-11
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  11. 2023-11-09
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  12. 2023-11-09
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    Charge satisfied #2
  13. 2023-10-11
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  14. 2023-10-06
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    Charge registered #4
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  15. 2023-06-08
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  20. 2022-07-14
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  21. 2022-06-27
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  22. 2022-06-27
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  24. 2022-05-05
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    Charge registered #3
    Lender: Northern Bank Limited
  25. 2013-01-08
    DONNELLY, Peter appointed
    director
  26. 2011-06-09
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    Charge satisfied #1
  27. 2011-02-01
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Northern Bank Limited
  28. 2008-08-04
    BIRT, Bernard Joseph appointed
    director
  29. 2002-02-25
    BIRT, Brendan appointed
    director
  30. 1999-11-15
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Aib Group (UK) PLC
  31. 1998-08-03
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    Company incorporated
    As TAILORED IMAGE LTD
  32. 1998-08-03
    BIRT, Bernard Joseph appointed
    secretary
  33. 1998-08-03
    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
  • -4 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 63 — approaching natural succession window.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

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 63+: Senior director is approximately 63. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • 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

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
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%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Tailored Image Holdings Ltd
Corporate entity
75100%
75–100%75-100% shares · 75-100% voting04/07/2022
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
  • 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.

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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

Officers (5 active · 0 resigned)

BIRT, Bernard Joseph
secretary · appointed 1998-08-03
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BIRT, Bernard Joseph
director · ~61y · appointed 2008-08-04
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BIRT, Brendan
director · ~63y · appointed 2002-02-25
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Active
BIRT, Cecelia Anne
director · ~59y · appointed 1998-08-03
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Active
DONNELLY, Peter
director · ~58y · appointed 2013-01-08
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Active

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Mortgages & charges

4
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:4 of 4 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
A registered charge06/10/2023
satisfied
Northern Bank
Northern Bank Limited
A registered charge05/05/202227/06/2022
satisfied
Northern Bank
Northern Bank Limited
Floating charge1 property01/02/201109/11/2023
satisfied
Aib Group (UK)
Aib Group (UK) PLC
Mortgage or charge1 property15/11/199909/06/2011
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Recent filings (111 total)

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accounts · AA
2026-05-22
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-08-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-medium
accounts · AA
2025-07-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-08-05
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2024-07-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-medium
accounts · AA
2024-07-01
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officers · CH01
2024-06-10
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officers · CH01
2024-06-10
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officers · CH03
2024-06-10
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address · AD01
2024-01-11
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mortgage · MR04
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mortgage · MR01
2023-10-11
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