JOWAH UK LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC533484 · ltd · incorporated 2016-04-22
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
—
year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£-784.2k
book net assets
Opportunity
79/100
Strong
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What this business does
Primary activity: Retail sale of furniture, lighting, and similar (not musical instruments or scores) in specialised stores
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
Pass (distressed without resilience)
Distressed active trading company — structural issues outweigh the discount.

Opportunity 79/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 83). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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
75
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
3 officers (3 active, 3 linked, 3 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
7 connected companies via shared directors
66
Filing history
24 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
79/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

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

Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
75
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 · accounting standard not declared
Negative net assets
Liabilities exceed assets by £784,225
Cash YoY
+21%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£29k
↑ 21% YoY
Net Worth
-£784k
↓ 14% YoY
Current Assets
£32k
↑ 18% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
-£784k-£621k-£458k-£294k-£131k£32kMar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Total assets£-784.2k£-689.2k
Current assets£32.4k£27.4k
Cash£28.9k£23.8k
Debtors£3.5k£3.6k
Net assets£-784.2k£-689.2k

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
2
filings
  • • 2 confirmation-statement
Last 90 days
2
filings
  • • 2 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
3
filings
  • • 2 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 officers
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (18 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-04-02
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    replacement-filing-of-confirmation-statement-with-made-up-date
    confirmation-statement · RP01CS01
  2. 2026-01-23
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  3. 2025-07-08
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  4. 2024-06-25
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    accounts · AA
  5. 2023-08-10
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  6. 2022-08-08
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  7. 2021-08-23
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  8. 2020-11-03
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  9. 2020-07-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2019-12-23
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  11. 2018-09-28
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  12. 2017-08-09
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    accounts · AA
  13. 2016-06-16
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    accounts · AA01
  14. 2016-04-22
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    Company incorporated
    As JOWAH UK LIMITED
  15. 2016-04-22
    ➕
    O'HAGAN, John Arthur appointed
    director
  16. 2016-04-22
    ➕
    O'HAGAN, Mark Anthony appointed
    director
  17. 2016-04-22
    ➕
    WILSON, John Alan appointed
    director
  18. 2016-04-22
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    incorporation-company
    incorporation · NEWINC

Owner dependency

73/100
High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 83 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

65/100
Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 83 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • 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
John Alan Wilson
Individual · British · DOB 01/1969 · age 57
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting22/04/2016
Mr John Arthur O'Hagan
Individual · British · DOB 12/1971 · age 55
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting22/04/2016

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
Incorporated2016-04-22
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC47599 — Retail sale of furniture, lighting, and similar (not musical instruments or scores) in specialised stores

Registered office

Farries, Kirk & Mcvean Dumfries Enterprise Park
Heathhall
Dumfries
DG1 3SJ
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-05-05
Last: 2026-04-21

Officers (3 active · 0 resigned)

O'HAGAN, John Arthur→
director · ~55y · appointed 2016-04-22
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Active
O'HAGAN, Mark Anthony→
director · ~83y · appointed 2016-04-22
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Active
WILSON, John Alan→
director · ~57y · appointed 2016-04-22
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Active

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Recent filings (24 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-27
replacement-filing-of-confirmation-statement-with-made-up-date
confirmation-statement · RP01CS01
2026-04-02
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-01-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-07-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-06-25
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-08-10
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-04-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-08-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-04-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-08-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-04-21
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2020-11-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-07-24