CENTURY ELECTRICAL WHOLESALE LTD

🌳Matureactive
NI053328 · ltd · incorporated 2004-12-15
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
£14.83M
year to Mar 2025
Net worth
—
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Non-specialised wholesale trade
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
Pursue
Conservative operator with a 80-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 80). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (78/100).

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
8 officers (4 active, 8 linked, 6 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
59 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
80
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102
Profitable
Profit before tax £716,819
Turnover YoY
-4%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Turnover£14.83M£15.47M
Gross profit£4.51M£4.57M
Operating profit£671.2k£810.3k
Profit before tax£716.8k£810.3k
Average employees60005700

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
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (28 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-01-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-05-09
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  4. 2024-05-09
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  5. 2024-01-12
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2023-01-03
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2021-12-14
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2021-10-28
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  9. 2021-10-22
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  10. 2021-09-30
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  11. 2021-09-29
    ➖
    KILLOUGH, Shaun Michael resigned
    director
  12. 2021-07-29
    ➕
    KILLOUGH, Shaun Michael appointed
    director
  13. 2021-07-29
    ➖
    KILLOUGH, Shaun Michael resigned
    director
  14. 2020-10-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  15. 2019-12-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  16. 2019-01-02
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  17. 2017-12-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  18. 2016-12-05
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  19. 2015-12-01
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    KILLOUGH, Shaun Michael appointed
    director
  20. 2015-11-30
    ➖
    POWER, Gregory resigned
    director
  21. 2011-01-01
    ➕
    COLLINS, Carolyn appointed
    director
  22. 2011-01-01
    ➕
    POWER, Gregory appointed
    director
  23. 2004-12-15
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    Company incorporated
    As CENTURY ELECTRICAL WHOLESALE LTD
  24. 2004-12-15
    ➕
    DONNELLY, Colin appointed
    secretary
  25. 2004-12-15
    ➕
    COLLINS, Alan appointed
    director
  26. 2004-12-15
    ➕
    DONNELLY, Colin appointed
    director
  27. 2004-12-15
    ➕
    KANE, Dorothy May appointed
    secretary
  28. 2004-12-15
    ➖
    KANE, Dorothy May resigned
    secretary

Owner dependency

83/100
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
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 21 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

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 80 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 21 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 21 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

1 active beneficial owner
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr. Alan Collins
Individual · Irish · DOB 06/1946 · age 80
——sig. influencesignificant influence · firm interest01/09/2016

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

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7 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
Incorporated2004-12-15
Jurisdictionnorthern-ireland
Primary SIC46900 — Non-specialised wholesale trade

Registered office

207 City Business Park
Dunmurry
Belfast
BT17 9HY

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last: 2025-12-17

Officers (4 active · 4 resigned)

DONNELLY, Colin→
secretary · appointed 2004-12-15
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
COLLINS, Alan→
director · ~80y · appointed 2004-12-15
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
COLLINS, Carolyn→
director · ~75y · appointed 2011-01-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
DONNELLY, Colin→
director · ~64y · appointed 2004-12-15
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
KANE, Dorothy May→
secretary · appointed 2004-12-15 · resigned 2004-12-15
Resigned
KILLOUGH, Shaun Michael→
director · ~72y · appointed 2021-07-29 · resigned 2021-09-29
Resigned
KILLOUGH, Shaun Michael→
director · ~72y · appointed 2015-12-01 · resigned 2021-07-29
Resigned
POWER, Gregory→
director · ~72y · appointed 2011-01-01 · resigned 2015-11-30
Resigned

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Recent filings (59 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-12-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2025-01-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-17
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-05-09
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-05-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2024-01-12
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-12-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-01-03
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-12-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-12-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2021-12-14
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2021-10-28
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2021-10-22
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2021-09-30