ACTIPH WATER LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC505074 · ltd · incorporated 2015-05-05

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

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Dec 2024

Net worth

£547.8k

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 11070

Sector: Manufacturing

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 77-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 77). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Cash flow review and working-capital discipline. Cash down -78% YoY — forensic review of receivables, stock turns, and creditor days. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 8.0y

45/100

under pressure

Refinance would be pressure-driven, not opportunity-driven. Expect tighter margins and covenant scrutiny.

· Oldest live charge is 8.0 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Cashflow trend is negative — lender view likely cautious.

Data confidence

Overall: high (84/100)

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

Lenders & charges

1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)

Directors & officers

9 officers (7 active, 9 linked, 9 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared

Director network

15 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

109 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

80/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared

Positive net assets

Net assets £547,756

Net assets shrinking

Down £663,076 YoY

Cash draining

Cash down 78% YoY

Cash YoY

-78%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£222k

↓ 78% YoY

Net Worth

£548k

↓ 55% YoY

Current Assets

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Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2024-12-31	2023-12-31
Cash	£222.1k	£1.02M
Net assets	£547.8k	£1.21M

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 capital

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (36 events)Click to expand

2025-12-23
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capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2025-09-30
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-07-14
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officers · AP01
2025-07-09
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HUNT, Emma Kay appointed
director
2024-10-26
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capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2024-10-22
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capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2024-09-27
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-09-27
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capital · SH01
2024-09-12
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incorporation · MA
2024-09-12
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2024-07-30
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capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2024-07-13
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capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2024-04-29
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-04-29
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-04-10
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capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2024-04-09
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capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2024-04-03
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capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2024-03-26
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capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2024-02-19
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capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2024-02-02
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capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2024-01-23
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change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
accounts · AA01
2024-01-04
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-11-22
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capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2023-11-20
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capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2018-12-31
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ANDERTON, Philip John resigned
director
2018-12-12
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PATON, Archibald James Stewart resigned
director
2018-09-17
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ROSS, Nicholas William appointed
director
2018-04-11
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Rbs Invoice Finance LTD
2016-05-11
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GOOD, Graham appointed
director
2016-05-11
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WOOD, Garreth Rene Clark appointed
director
2016-05-11
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WOOD, Graham Ian appointed
director
2016-05-11
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WOOD, Nicholas John Macrae appointed
director
2016-05-11
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ANDERTON, Philip John appointed
director
2016-05-11
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PATON, Archibald James Stewart appointed
director
2015-05-05
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Company incorporated
As ACTIPH WATER LIMITED
2015-05-05
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DOUGLAS-HAMILTON, James Robert appointed
director

Owner dependency

63/100

High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS

-7 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 77 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

65/100

Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 77 years old. Natural succession window is now.
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

1 active beneficial owner

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Garreth Rene Clark Wood Individual · British · DOB 08/1978 · age 48	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	27/01/2020

1 historic (ceased) PSC

Mr James Robert Douglas-Hamiltonceased 27/07/2023· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting

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

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2015-05-05

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC11070 — SIC 11070

Registered office

107 George Street

Edinburgh

EH2 3ES

Scotland

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-09-30

Last made up to: 2024-12-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-10-21

Last: 2025-10-07