ST EVAL CANDLE CO LTD

📈Growthactive
04540135 · ltd · incorporated 2002-09-19
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.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 21.7y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
£9.99M
year to Dec 2025
Net worth
—
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Other manufacturing n.e.c.
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 66-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 66). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (78/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 21.7y

60/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 21.7 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.
  • · Profitable and stable/growing — lender coverage supportable.

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

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
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
8 officers (4 active, 8 linked, 5 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 4 total, 4 with control declared
90
Director network
4 connected companies via shared directors
57
Filing history
90 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
82/100Exceptional
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
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102
Profitable
Profit before tax £703,435
Strong revenue growth
Turnover up 32% YoY
Turnover YoY
+32%
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£0Dec 2024Dec 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-12-312024-12-31
Turnover£9.99M£7.58M
Gross profit£5.34M£4.29M
Operating profit£709.4k£633.1k
Profit before tax£703.4k£625.2k
Average employees71006300

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
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (35 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-05-06
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-07-09
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
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  3. 2025-05-08
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2025-03-18
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charles-court-order-extend-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  5. 2024-06-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2023-10-25
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    NICKLIN, Roger David resigned
    director
  7. 2023-10-25
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  8. 2023-08-02
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2022-11-16
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    change-account-reference-date-company-current-shortened
    accounts · AA01
  10. 2022-11-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2022-09-27
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  12. 2022-09-26
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
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  13. 2022-09-26
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    officers · CH01
  14. 2022-09-26
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  15. 2022-08-31
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Lloyds Bank PLC
  16. 2022-03-24
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  17. 2021-11-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  18. 2021-02-18
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    memorandum-articles
    incorporation · MA
  19. 2021-02-18
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    resolution
    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  20. 2021-02-17
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    capital-alter-shares-redemption-statement-of-capital
    capital · SH02
  21. 2021-01-05
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  22. 2020-12-31
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    POOLEY, Bernard Bertram resigned
    director
  23. 2020-11-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  24. 2018-06-25
    ➕
    NICKLIN, Roger David appointed
    director
  25. 2018-06-18
    ➕
    YOUNG-JAMIESON, Harry Oswin appointed
    director
  26. 2015-05-14
    ➕
    POOLEY, Bernard Bertram appointed
    director
  27. 2004-09-16
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC
  28. 2002-09-19
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    Company incorporated
    As ST EVAL CANDLE CO LTD
  29. 2002-09-19
    ➕
    YOUNG-JAMIESON, Sarah Gifford appointed
    secretary
  30. 2002-09-19
    ➕
    GREAVES, Ian Miles Kennedy appointed
    director
  31. 2002-09-19
    ➕
    YOUNG-JAMIESON, Sarah Gifford appointed
    director
  32. 2002-09-19
    ➕
    SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  33. 2002-09-19
    ➖
    SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  34. 2002-09-19
    ➕
    INSTANT COMPANIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  35. 2002-09-19
    ➖
    INSTANT COMPANIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director

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 24 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 66 — succession pressure is live.
  • +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 66. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 24 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 24 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
Sarah Gifford Young-Jamieson
Individual · British · DOB 05/1960 · age 66
——sig. influencesignificant influence09/09/2017
3 historic (ceased) PSCs
  • Mr Ian Miles Kennedy Greavesceased 10/09/2017· significant influence
  • Sarah Young-Jamiesonceased 09/09/2017· significant influence
  • Ian Greavesceased 09/09/2017· significant influence

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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Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2002-09-19
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC32990 — Other manufacturing n.e.c.

Registered office

Engollan
St. Eval
Wadebridge
Cornwall
PL27 7UL

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-09-30
Last made up to: 2025-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-09-24
Last: 2025-09-10

Officers (4 active · 4 resigned)

YOUNG-JAMIESON, Sarah Gifford→
secretary · appointed 2002-09-19
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
GREAVES, Ian Miles Kennedy→
director · ~64y · appointed 2002-09-19
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
YOUNG-JAMIESON, Harry Oswin→
director · ~40y · appointed 2018-06-18
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
YOUNG-JAMIESON, Sarah Gifford→
director · ~66y · appointed 2002-09-19
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2002-09-19 · resigned 2002-09-19
Resigned
NICKLIN, Roger David→
director · ~69y · appointed 2018-06-25 · resigned 2023-10-25
Resigned
POOLEY, Bernard Bertram→
director · ~69y · appointed 2015-05-14 · resigned 2020-12-31
Resigned
INSTANT COMPANIES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2002-09-19 · resigned 2002-09-19
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
2
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
Lloyds Bank PLC
A registered charge1 property31/08/2022—
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC
Debenture1 property16/09/2004—
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Recent filings (90 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2026-05-06
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-09-19
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-07-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2025-05-08
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charles-court-order-extend-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2025-03-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-09-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2024-06-21
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2023-10-25
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-09-29
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-08-02
change-account-reference-date-company-current-shortened
accounts · AA01
2022-11-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2022-11-16
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2022-09-27
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-09-26
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-09-26