A & F GELATI ITALIANI LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
07080897 · ltd · incorporated 2009-11-19
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 12.8y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
78/100
Strong
What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 10520
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
PursueStrong opportunity: active trading company with strong profile and bankable structure.
Opportunity 78/100 (strong), bankability 80/100. High owner-dependency — earn-out structure likely required for clean transition. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (58/100).
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Refinance opportunity
1 live charge · oldest 12.8y
85/100
ready
Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.
- · Oldest live charge is 12.8 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
- · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.
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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
3 officers (2 active, 3 linked, 2 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
3 connected companies via shared directors
54
Filing history
52 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
78/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional
Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.
Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
65
Some acquirability indicators.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown| Metric | 2025-03-31 | 2024-03-31 |
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| Total assets | — | £103.8k |
| Current assets | — | £211.3k |
| Cash | — | £21.5k |
| Debtors | — | £124.8k |
| Net assets | — | £83.0k |
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.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
2
filings
- • 1 accounts
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand
- 2025-12-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2025-10-02📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2025-10-02📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2025-09-29📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2025-09-29📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2025-03-19📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2025-03-19📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2024-12-03📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-12-20📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-07-20📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-12-20📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-03-19📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2020-11-13📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2020-11-13📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2020-11-13📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2019-12-18📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2018-12-20📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2018-04-01➖EVANS, John resignedsecretary
- 2013-07-17🔒Charge registered #1Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
- 2009-11-19🏢Company incorporatedAs A & F GELATI ITALIANI LIMITED
- 2009-11-19➕CAGETTI, Francesca appointeddirector
- 2009-11-19➕CESANA, Ariela appointeddirector
- 2009-11-19➕EVANS, John appointedsecretary
Owner dependency
68/100
High — earn-out structure requiredMaterial founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.
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 16 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
Succession & seller-readiness
59/100
Strong succession signalMultiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.
SIGNALS
- secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
- secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 16 years.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 16 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
cleanNo 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 · dominant holder ≥75%| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
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Ms Ariela Cesana Individual · Italian,British · DOB 05/1974 · age 52 | 75–100% | — | 75-100% shares | 01/11/2016 |
Ms Francesca Cagetti Individual · Italian,British · DOB 08/1976 · age 50 | — | — | sig. influencesignificant influence | 01/11/2016 |
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
🔒Co-director network graph
Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
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🔒Tailored diligence questions
6 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →🔒Advanced scoring suite
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.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2009-11-19
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC10520 — SIC 10520
Registered office
Unit C34 Hastingwood Trading Estate
Harbet Road
London
N18 3HU
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-11-23
Last: 2025-11-09
Officers (2 active · 1 resigned)
CAGETTI, Francesca→
Activedirector · ~50y · appointed 2009-11-19
View their other companies + combined net worth →
CESANA, Ariela→
Activedirector · ~52y · appointed 2009-11-19
View their other companies + combined net worth →
EVANS, John→
Resignedsecretary · appointed 2009-11-19 · resigned 2018-04-01
Click a director name to see their full track record across all companies.
Mortgages & charges
1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | National Westminster Bank National Westminster Bank PLC | A registered charge | 1 property | 17/07/2013 | — |
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Recent filings (52 total)
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-30
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-11-17
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-10-02
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-10-02
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-09-29
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-09-29
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-03-19
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-03-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-03
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-11-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-11-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-11-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-07-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-12-20