AEROFORMA TECHNOLOGIES (WEST) LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
04765917 · ltd · incorporated 2003-05-15
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
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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Opportunity
81/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 25990
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 75-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 75). 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
17 officers (5 active, 17 linked, 12 with DOB)
84
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
11 connected companies via shared directors
78
Filing history
86 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
81/100Exceptional
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
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
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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
Average employees393900

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.

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
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (46 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-06-12
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  3. 2025-06-01
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    KWIATKOWSKI, Edward Wladyslaw appointed
    director
  4. 2024-12-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2024-02-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2023-03-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2022-03-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2021-03-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2020-12-07
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    resolution
    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  10. 2019-12-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2019-10-22
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  12. 2019-10-22
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  13. 2019-10-09
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    KWIATKOWSKI, Edward Wladyslaw resigned
    director
  14. 2019-10-09
    ➖
    KWIATKOWSKI, Henry Zbigniew resigned
    director
  15. 2019-06-17
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  16. 2019-06-17
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  17. 2019-01-14
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    CHADWICK, Anthony resigned
    director
  18. 2019-01-01
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    WOJTCZAK, Bartosz appointed
    director
  19. 2018-12-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  20. 2017-12-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  21. 2016-12-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  22. 2014-06-02
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    SCOTT, Clive appointed
    director
  23. 2014-06-02
    ➕
    CHADWICK, Anthony appointed
    director
  24. 2010-11-19
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    CHADWICK, Anthony resigned
    director
  25. 2009-10-01
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    KWIATKOWSKI, Antoni Pawet appointed
    director
  26. 2009-10-01
    ➖
    CORRIGAN, Richard resigned
    director
  27. 2009-10-01
    ➖
    FRANCIS, Gary William resigned
    director
  28. 2009-10-01
    ➖
    MERCER, Robert Edward resigned
    director
  29. 2009-02-18
    ➕
    FRANCIS, Gary William appointed
    director
  30. 2008-03-04
    ➕
    KWIATKOWSKI, Antoni Pawet appointed
    secretary
  31. 2008-03-04
    ➖
    CORRIGAN, Richard resigned
    secretary
  32. 2006-01-05
    ➕
    CORRIGAN, Richard appointed
    director
  33. 2003-08-05
    ➕
    CHADWICK, Anthony appointed
    director
  34. 2003-08-05
    ➕
    KWIATKOWSKI, Henry Zbigniew appointed
    director
  35. 2003-08-05
    ➕
    MERCER, Robert Edward appointed
    director
  36. 2003-07-24
    ➕
    CORRIGAN, Richard appointed
    secretary
  37. 2003-07-24
    ➖
    SKENE EDWARDS WS resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  38. 2003-07-24
    ➕
    KWIATKOWSKI, Edward Wladyslaw appointed
    director
  39. 2003-07-24
    ➖
    MACDONALD, Robert Iain Ferguson resigned
    director
  40. 2003-06-17
    ➕
    SKENE EDWARDS WS appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  41. 2003-06-17
    ➖
    SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  42. 2003-06-17
    ➕
    MACDONALD, Robert Iain Ferguson appointed
    director
  43. 2003-06-17
    ➖
    INSTANT COMPANIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director
  44. 2003-05-15
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    Company incorporated
    As AEROFORMA TECHNOLOGIES (WEST) LIMITED
  45. 2003-05-15
    ➕
    SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  46. 2003-05-15
    ➕
    INSTANT COMPANIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director

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
  • -4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 17 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 75 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

73/100
Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 75 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 17 years.
  • 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.)

Group structure

Universal Steels And Aluminium Group Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Universal Steels And Aluminium Group Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares
ultimate parent
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AEROFORMA TECHNOLOGIES (WEST) LIMITED
This company · 04765917

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
Universal Steels And Aluminium Group Limited
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%75-100% shares · 75-100% voting15/06/2016

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

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🔒Tailored diligence questions

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
Incorporated2003-05-15
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC25990 — SIC 25990

Registered office

Unit 1 Harwood Lodge
Swindon Road
Cheltenham
Gloucestershire
GL51 9NB

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-05-22
Last: 2025-05-08

Officers (5 active · 12 resigned)

KWIATKOWSKI, Antoni Pawet→
secretary · appointed 2008-03-04
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
KWIATKOWSKI, Antoni Pawet→
director · ~49y · appointed 2009-10-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
KWIATKOWSKI, Edward Wladyslaw→
director · ~75y · appointed 2025-06-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
SCOTT, Clive→
director · ~64y · appointed 2014-06-02
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
WOJTCZAK, Bartosz→
director · ~43y · appointed 2019-01-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
CORRIGAN, Richard→
secretary · appointed 2003-07-24 · resigned 2008-03-04
Resigned
SKENE EDWARDS WS→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2003-06-17 · resigned 2003-07-24
Resigned
SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2003-05-15 · resigned 2003-06-17
Resigned
CHADWICK, Anthony→
director · ~66y · appointed 2014-06-02 · resigned 2019-01-14
Resigned
CHADWICK, Anthony→
director · ~66y · appointed 2003-08-05 · resigned 2010-11-19
Resigned
CORRIGAN, Richard→
director · ~80y · appointed 2006-01-05 · resigned 2009-10-01
Resigned
FRANCIS, Gary William→
director · ~66y · appointed 2009-02-18 · resigned 2009-10-01
Resigned
KWIATKOWSKI, Edward Wladyslaw→
director · ~75y · appointed 2003-07-24 · resigned 2019-10-09
Resigned
KWIATKOWSKI, Henry Zbigniew→
director · ~73y · appointed 2003-08-05 · resigned 2019-10-09
Resigned
MACDONALD, Robert Iain Ferguson→
director · ~76y · appointed 2003-06-17 · resigned 2003-07-24
Resigned
MERCER, Robert Edward→
director · ~78y · appointed 2003-08-05 · resigned 2009-10-01
Resigned
INSTANT COMPANIES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2003-05-15 · resigned 2003-06-17
Resigned

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Recent filings (86 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-24
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2025-06-12
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-05-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-07-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-02-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-06-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-03-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-05-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-03-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-05-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-03-24
resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2020-12-07
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-08-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-12-31