ABC BLINDS & CURTAINS LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
SC486655 · ltd · incorporated 2014-09-12
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 11.4y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Oct 2024
Net worth
£-193.3k
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 13923
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pass (distressed without resilience)Distressed active trading company — structural issues outweigh the discount.
Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 67/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 65). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Consolidate lender relationships. 3 distinct lenders creates friction — refinance into single-lender structure for cleaner diligence. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).
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Refinance opportunity
1 live charge · oldest 11.4y
65/100
clean up first
Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.
- · Oldest live charge is 11.4 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: 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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
3 officers (2 active, 3 linked, 3 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
4 connected companies via shared directors
57
Filing history
47 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
75
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 · accounting standard not declaredNegative net assets
Liabilities exceed assets by £193,333
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
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Net Worth
-£193k
~ YoY
Current Assets
£16k
~ YoY
Current Liabilities
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown| Metric | 2024-10-31 | 2023-10-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Total assets | £-174.5k | £-174.5k |
| Current assets | £15.8k | £15.8k |
| Debtors | £10.6k | £10.6k |
| Net assets | £-193.3k | £-193.3k |
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.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
- 2025-07-25📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2024-10-18📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2023-09-15📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2023-02-17📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2023-01-26📄accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridgedaccounts · AA
- 2022-08-12📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-08-09📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-05-03📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-08-27📄gazette-filings-brought-up-to-dategazette · DISS40
- 2021-08-24📄gazette-notice-compulsorygazette · GAZ1
- 2021-06-05📄gazette-filings-brought-up-to-dategazette · DISS40
- 2021-05-14📄dissolved-compulsory-strike-off-suspendeddissolution · DISS16(SOAS)
- 2021-04-06📄gazette-notice-compulsorygazette · GAZ1
- 2020-10-21📄gazette-filings-brought-up-to-dategazette · DISS40
- 2020-10-20📄gazette-notice-compulsorygazette · GAZ1
- 2020-03-04📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2020-02-18📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2020-02-18📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2014-12-03➖HARRIS, Alan Douglas resigneddirector
- 2014-11-28🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Diane Shepherd as Trustee of the Premier Executive Pension Scheme
- 2014-09-12🏢Company incorporatedAs ABC BLINDS & CURTAINS LIMITED
- 2014-09-12➕ECCLES, Bramley Joseph appointeddirector
- 2014-09-12➕SHEPHERD, Diane Elizabeth appointeddirector
- 2014-09-12➕HARRIS, Alan Douglas appointeddirector
Owner dependency
73/100
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.
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 65 — succession pressure is live.
Succession & seller-readiness
61/100
Strong succession signalMultiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 65. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
- secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
- 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| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mr Bramley Joseph Eccles Individual · British · DOB 10/1961 · age 65 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 06/04/2016 |
Ms Diane Elizabeth Shepherd Individual · British · DOB 04/1965 · age 61 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 06/04/2016 |
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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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2014-09-12
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC13923 — SIC 13923
Registered office
22 Backbrae Street
Kilsyth
Glasgow
G65 0NH
Scotland
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-07-31
Last made up to: 2024-10-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-09-26
Last: 2025-09-12
Officers (2 active · 1 resigned)
ECCLES, Bramley Joseph→
Activedirector · ~65y · appointed 2014-09-12
View their other companies + combined net worth →
SHEPHERD, Diane Elizabeth→
Activedirector · ~61y · appointed 2014-09-12
View their other companies + combined net worth →
HARRIS, Alan Douglas→
Resigneddirector · ~73y · appointed 2014-09-12 · resigned 2014-12-03
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Mortgages & charges
1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Diane Shepherd as Trustee of the Premier Executive Pension Scheme / Bramley Joseph Eccles as Trustee of the Premier Executive Pension Scheme / Morgan Lloyd Trustees as Trustee of the Premier Executive Pension Scheme Diane Shepherd as Trustee of the Premier Executive Pension Scheme / Bramley Joseph Eccles as Trustee of the Premier Executive Pension Scheme / Morgan Lloyd Trustees Limited as Trustee of the Premier Executive Pension Scheme | A registered charge | 9 properties | 28/11/2014 | — |
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Recent filings (47 total)
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-10-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2025-07-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2024-10-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-10-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-10-31
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2023-09-15
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2023-02-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2023-01-26
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-09-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-08-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-08-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-05-03
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-09-14
gazette-filings-brought-up-to-date
gazette · DISS40
2021-08-27
gazette-notice-compulsory
gazette · GAZ1
2021-08-24