51% STUDIOS (LONDON) LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
02805336 · ltd · incorporated 1993-03-31
Investment thesis
Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.
Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.
Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.
Opportunity decay
hardening · 12-months
Already tight — no obvious softening catalysts on the horizon.
  • · Thesis: well-run, low negotiation leverage
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Architectural activities
Sector: Professional, scientific & technical
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 67-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 67). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (71/100)

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
1 year of iXBRL accounts extracted (no YoY comparison) + narrative notes parsed
50
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 4 with DOB)
86
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
88 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
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.

Key financials

1 year extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
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Net Worth
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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-31
Average employees300

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

1 signal 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
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filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 90 days
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filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-09-18
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  2. 2024-09-05
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  3. 2023-08-02
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  4. 2022-11-03
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  5. 2022-03-21
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  6. 2020-12-10
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  7. 2019-12-31
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  8. 2018-12-12
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  9. 2017-11-24
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  10. 2016-09-30
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  11. 2016-04-22
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  12. 2015-12-04
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  13. 2015-04-07
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  14. 2014-12-10
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  15. 2014-04-14
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  16. 2002-11-26
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    CHOW, Chi Chung resigned
    director
  17. 1997-09-22
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    GOH, Kasan resigned
    director
  18. 1993-07-29
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    CHOW, Chi Chung appointed
    director
  19. 1993-07-29
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    GOH, Kasan appointed
    director
  20. 1993-04-23
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    DU TOIT, Catherine appointed
    secretary
  21. 1993-04-23
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    DU TOIT, Catherine appointed
    director
  22. 1993-04-23
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    THOMAS, Peter appointed
    director
  23. 1993-03-31
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    Company incorporated
    As 51% STUDIOS (LONDON) LIMITED

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
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 33 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 67 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

86/100
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 67. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 33 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 33 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

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Ms Catherine Du Toit
Individual · British · DOB 08/1963 · age 63
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016
Peter Thomas
Individual · British · DOB 10/1959 · age 67
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016

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
Incorporated1993-03-31
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC71111 — Architectural activities

Registered office

Ground Floor
11 Manvers Street
Bath
BA1 1JQ

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-14
Last: 2026-03-31

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

DU TOIT, Catherine→
secretary · appointed 1993-04-23
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Active
DU TOIT, Catherine→
director · ~63y · appointed 1993-04-23
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Active
THOMAS, Peter→
director · ~67y · appointed 1993-04-23
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Active
CHOW, Chi Chung→
director · ~58y · appointed 1993-07-29 · resigned 2002-11-26
Resigned
GOH, Kasan→
director · ~63y · appointed 1993-07-29 · resigned 1997-09-22
Resigned

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Recent filings (88 total)

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2025-09-18
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2025-04-03
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2024-09-05
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2024-04-08
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2023-08-02
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2023-04-11
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2022-11-03
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2022-04-07
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accounts · AA
2022-03-21
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-05-07
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accounts · AA
2020-12-10
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2020-04-13
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accounts · AA
2019-12-31
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-04-04