34 SOUTH LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
05972395 · ltd · incorporated 2006-10-19
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.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 19.2y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Jan 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Other human health activities
Sector: Human health & social work
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 70-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 70). 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 (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 19.2y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 19.2 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (78/100)

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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)
78
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
51 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
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.

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£0Jan 2024Jan 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-01-312024-01-31
Average employees9900

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
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filings
Last 90 days
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filings
Last 180 days
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filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-10-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-10-29
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  3. 2023-09-28
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  4. 2022-10-12
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    accounts · AA
  5. 2021-10-11
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  6. 2020-10-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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  7. 2019-10-14
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  8. 2018-10-23
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  9. 2017-10-26
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    accounts · AA
  10. 2016-10-26
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    accounts · AA
  11. 2016-04-14
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    address · AD03
  12. 2015-11-12
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    annual-return · AR01
  13. 2015-11-12
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    address · AD04
  14. 2015-10-22
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    accounts · AA
  15. 2014-11-14
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    annual-return · AR01
  16. 2007-01-26
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  17. 2006-10-19
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    Company incorporated
    As 34 SOUTH LIMITED
  18. 2006-10-19
    ➕
    KROG, Germaine May Louise appointed
    secretary
  19. 2006-10-19
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    KROG, Germaine May Louise appointed
    director
  20. 2006-10-19
    ➕
    KROG, Keith Patrick appointed
    director
  21. 2006-10-19
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    SAME-DAY COMPANY SERVICES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  22. 2006-10-19
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    SAME-DAY COMPANY SERVICES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  23. 2006-10-19
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    WILDMAN & BATTELL LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  24. 2006-10-19
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    WILDMAN & BATTELL LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

91/100
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 20 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 70 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

89/100
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 70 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 20 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 20 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
Mrs Germaine May Louise Krog
Individual · Swiss · DOB 03/1963 · age 63
25–50%
—25-50% shares19/10/2016
Mr Keith Patrick Krog
Individual · South African,Swiss · DOB 03/1956 · age 70
25–50%
—25-50% shares19/10/2016

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
Incorporated2006-10-19
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC86900 — Other human health activities

Registered office

16 Lubenham Hill
Market Harborough
Leicestershire
LE16 9DQ

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-10-31
Last made up to: 2025-01-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-10-12
Last: 2025-09-28

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

KROG, Germaine May Louise→
secretary · appointed 2006-10-19
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Active
KROG, Germaine May Louise→
director · ~63y · appointed 2006-10-19
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Active
KROG, Keith Patrick→
director · ~70y · appointed 2006-10-19
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Active
SAME-DAY COMPANY SERVICES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2006-10-19 · resigned 2006-10-19
Resigned
WILDMAN & BATTELL LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2006-10-19 · resigned 2006-10-19
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Debenture1 property26/01/2007—
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Recent filings (51 total)

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accounts · AA
2025-10-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-09-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-10-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-10-11
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-09-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-09-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-10-12
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-10-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-10-11
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-09-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-10-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-10-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-10-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-10-14
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2018-11-15