BENNETT OPIE,LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

00124503 · ltd · incorporated 1912-09-30

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 41.0y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

£52.68M

year to Mar 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

79/100

Strong

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 10390

Sector: Manufacturing

ALSO REGISTERED FOR

46390Non-specialised wholesale of food, beverages and tobacco

Investor take

Pursue

Conservative operator with a 78-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 79/100 (strong), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (65/100, director aged 78). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (78/100).

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Refinance opportunity

5 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 41.0y

60/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 41.0 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
· Legal-friction score 28/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.
· Profitable and stable/growing — lender coverage supportable.

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile

address, 2 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

5 charges (5/5 with lender, 5/5 with type)

Directors & officers

22 officers (10 active, 22 linked, 19 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

1 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

152 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

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Opportunity Score

79/100Strong

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.

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 · FRS 102

Profitable

Profit before tax £2,986,842

Turnover YoY

+4%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Turnover	£52.68M	£50.42M
Gross profit	£12.63M	£11.00M
Operating profit	£2.69M	£2.51M
Profit before tax	£2.99M	£2.80M
Average employees	14100	14400

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

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 officers

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (53 events)Click to expand

2025-12-11
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officers · TM01
2025-11-11
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accounts · AA
2025-07-30
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STRINGER, Michael Gerald William resigned
director
2024-12-09
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-01
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-11-12
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officers · AP03
2023-11-12
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termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2023-11-12
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2023-11-12
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2023-11-12
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officers · AP01
2023-10-20
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GORDON, Lee appointed
secretary
2023-10-20
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GORDON, Lee appointed
director
2023-10-20
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WARD, Stephen Patrick resigned
secretary
2023-10-20
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BAILEY, Stuart Anthony resigned
director
2023-10-20
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WARD, Stephen Patrick resigned
director
2023-01-25
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accounts · AA
2021-12-08
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2021-03-23
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2019-10-22
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accounts · AA
2019-06-24
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officers · TM01
2019-06-24
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2019-05-03
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LING, Darril Geoffrey resigned
director
2019-03-06
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OPIE, Jeannine Alice resigned
director
2018-11-08
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2018-06-28
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Charge satisfied #5
2018-06-28
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Charge satisfied #3
2018-06-28
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Charge satisfied #2
2018-06-28
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Charge satisfied #1
2016-09-30
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WHITE, Derek Arthur resigned
director
2016-04-04
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DAVIES, William James appointed
director
2016-04-04
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LING, Darril Geoffrey appointed
director
2016-02-18
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GODLEY, Mark James appointed
director
2015-09-04
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OPIE, Christopher Ian William appointed
director
2013-06-24
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Charge satisfied #4
2011-02-04
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BAILEY, Stuart Anthony appointed
director
2009-12-22
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Charge registered #5
Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
2009-07-05
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OPIE, Derek William resigned
director
2007-06-11
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OPIE, Betty Annie resigned
director
2006-06-01
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OPIE, Betty Annie appointed
director
2006-06-01
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STRINGER, Michael Gerald William appointed
director
2006-03-09
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OPIE, Betty Annie resigned
director
2004-04-14
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Charge registered #4
Lender: The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
2002-04-08
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STRINGER, Michael Gerald William resigned
director
2002-04-01
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WARD, Stephen Patrick appointed
secretary
2002-03-31
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BROOK, Brenda resigned
secretary
2001-08-03
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FOX, Paul Anthony appointed
director
1997-01-01
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WARD, Stephen Patrick appointed
director
1997-01-01
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WHITE, Derek Arthur appointed
director
1996-09-04
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Charge registered #3
Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
1992-03-13
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OPIE, David Ian Bennett, Reverend appointed
director

Showing most recent 50 of 53 events

Owner dependency

88/100

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

-9 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "OPIE" — strong identity link between founder and business.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 34 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 78 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

80/100

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 78 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 34 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
supportingClean filings + long tenure: Disciplined long-tenure operator — classic lifestyle-business pattern that often sells quietly.

Red flags

1 med ·

Charge satisfaction-then-recreation pattern

medium

Multiple instances where a charge was satisfied and a new charge created within 6 months. Suggests active refinancing cycle.

Group structure

Bennett Opie Holdings Ltd is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Bennett Opie Holdings Ltd

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control

ultimate parent

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BENNETT OPIE,LIMITED

This company · 00124503

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Bennett Opie Holdings Ltd Corporate entity	75–100%	—	board control75-100% shares · board control · firm interest	06/04/2016

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

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

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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

Incorporated1912-09-30

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC10390 — SIC 10390

Registered office

Chalkwell Road

Sittingbourne

Kent

ME10 2LE

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-12-12

Last: 2025-11-28