AMBERFORTH LIMITED

💤Zombieactive
SC151217 · ltd · incorporated 1994-06-02
Investment thesis
Zombie company — trading but stalled; unlikely mover.
Why interesting: Quiet, steady; could be a succession or carve-out candidate with the right conversation.
Why risky: No growth signal; thin margin for error on price.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Jun 2024
Net worth
£543.6k
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 09100
Sector: Mining & quarrying
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 09900SIC 09900
Investor take
Pursue
Asset-holding vehicle with a 74-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 74). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Broaden director team. Sole director creates succession risk and reduces buyer comfort. Appoint a second director or strong #2. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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, 2 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
4 officers (2 active, 4 linked, 2 with DOB)
80
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
75 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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 105 (micro)
Positive net assets
Net assets £543,649
Net assets shrinking
Down £65,404 YoY

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
—
Net Worth
£544k
↓ 11% YoY
Current Assets
£544k
↓ 11% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
£0£122k£244k£365k£487k£609kJun 2023Jun 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 105 (micro)
Metric2024-06-302023-06-30
Total assets£543.6k£609.1k
Current assets£543.7k£608.5k
Net assets£543.6k£609.1k

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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Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-03-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
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  2. 2024-03-25
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  3. 2022-11-21
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  4. 2022-03-30
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  5. 2021-06-29
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  6. 2020-03-30
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  7. 2019-05-10
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    officers · CH01
  8. 2019-05-10
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    officers · CH03
  9. 2018-10-10
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  10. 2018-03-21
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  11. 2016-10-26
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  12. 2016-05-10
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  13. 2015-11-30
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  14. 2015-05-26
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  15. 2015-03-27
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  16. 2014-05-22
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  17. 1994-07-11
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    JEFFREY, Marion appointed
    secretary
  18. 1994-07-11
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    JEFFREY, Stephen Thornton appointed
    director
  19. 1994-06-02
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    Company incorporated
    As AMBERFORTH LIMITED
  20. 1994-06-02
    ➕
    REID, Brian appointed
    nominee-secretary
  21. 1994-06-02
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    REID, Brian resigned
    nominee-secretary
  22. 1994-06-02
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    MABBOTT, Stephen appointed
    nominee-director
  23. 1994-06-02
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    MABBOTT, Stephen resigned
    nominee-director

Owner dependency

100/100
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
  • +Sole director: Only one active director — all governance concentrated on one person.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 32 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 74 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

100/100
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 74 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • primarySole active director: Only one director in control. No visible successor — buyers solve the succession problem.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 32 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 32 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
Mr Stephen Thornton Jeffrey
Individual · British · DOB 11/1952 · age 74
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016
Mrs Marian Jeffrey
Individual · British · DOB 05/1954 · age 72
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.

🔒Co-director network graph

Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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8 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
Incorporated1994-06-02
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC09100 — SIC 09100

Registered office

505 Great Western Road
Glasgow
G12 8HN

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-06-30
Last made up to: 2024-06-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-05-24
Last: 2025-05-10

Officers (2 active · 2 resigned)

JEFFREY, Marion→
secretary · appointed 1994-07-11
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
JEFFREY, Stephen Thornton→
director · ~74y · appointed 1994-07-11
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
REID, Brian→
nominee-secretary · appointed 1994-06-02 · resigned 1994-06-02
Resigned
MABBOTT, Stephen→
nominee-director · ~76y · appointed 1994-06-02 · resigned 1994-06-02
Resigned

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Recent filings (75 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-05-22
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accounts · AA
2025-03-31
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-05-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-03-25
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-05-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-11-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-05-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-03-30
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accounts · AA
2021-06-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-05-11
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-06-05
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accounts · AA
2020-03-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-05-10
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2019-05-10
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2019-05-10