HOBSONS BREWERY AND COMPANY LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

03330811 · ltd · incorporated 1997-03-10

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

approaching window · 12-months

Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.

· Oldest live charge 11.6y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Apr 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Manufacture of beer

Sector: Manufacturing

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 68-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 68). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 11.6y

85/100

ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

· Oldest live charge is 11.6 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 20/100 — 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

Lenders & charges

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

Directors & officers

17 officers (5 active, 17 linked, 11 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

5 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

107 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

83/100Exceptional

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.

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 · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-04-30	2024-04-30
Average employees	2400	2700

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

filings

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 officers

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 officers

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (49 events)Click to expand

2026-05-01
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officers · TM01
2026-04-30
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PEARCE, Kathryn resigned
director
2025-11-04
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accounts · AA
2025-04-07
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officers · AP01
2025-04-01
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WILSON, Carol Janet appointed
director
2025-01-25
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accounts · AA
2024-06-28
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-06-28
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change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2024-06-28
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change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2023-11-02
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accounts · AA
2023-01-19
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officers · AP01
2023-01-18
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PEARCE, Kathryn appointed
director
2022-11-02
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accounts · AA
2022-03-08
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officers · TM01
2022-02-28
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ALBINI, Paul Anthony resigned
director
2021-09-08
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-04-12
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change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2021-04-12
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change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2020-07-07
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-10-01
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-07-01
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change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2019-07-01
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change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2018-04-30
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CROUCH, Reuben Paul Anson resigned
director
2018-04-05
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SANT, Timothy Alexander resigned
director
2017-09-01
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DAVIS, Susan Mary appointed
secretary
2017-09-01
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DAVIS, Nicholas Edward James resigned
secretary
2016-12-31
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HIGGINSON, Robert Matthew resigned
director
2015-04-02
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CROUCH, Reuben Paul Anson appointed
director
2014-12-17
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Santander UK PLC
2014-06-01
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SANT, Timothy Alexander appointed
director
2008-01-11
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CHURCHWARD, Patricia Beatrice appointed
director
2007-11-12
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CHURCHWARD, Martin John appointed
director
2007-11-12
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DAVIS, Kathleen Margaret resigned
secretary
2007-11-12
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DAVIS, Nicholas Edward James appointed
secretary
2007-11-12
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DAVIS, Henry Arthur James resigned
director
2007-11-12
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DAVIS, Kathleen Margaret resigned
director
2004-04-06
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ALBINI, Paul Anthony appointed
director
2003-01-09
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HIGGINSON, Robert Matthew appointed
director
1997-03-10
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Company incorporated
As HOBSONS BREWERY AND COMPANY LIMITED
1997-03-10
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DAVIS, Nicholas Edward James appointed
director
1997-03-10
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DAVIS, Kathleen Margaret appointed
secretary
1997-03-10
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COMBINED SECRETARIAL SERVICES LIMITED appointed
corporate-secretary
1997-03-10
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COMBINED SECRETARIAL SERVICES LIMITED resigned
corporate-secretary
1997-03-10
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DAVIS, Henry Arthur James appointed
director
1997-03-10
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DAVIS, Kathleen Margaret appointed
director
1997-03-10
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COMBINED NOMINEES LIMITED appointed
corporate-director
1997-03-10
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COMBINED NOMINEES LIMITED resigned
corporate-director
1997-03-10
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COMBINED SECRETARIAL SERVICES LIMITED appointed
corporate-director
1997-03-10
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COMBINED SECRETARIAL SERVICES LIMITED resigned
corporate-director

Owner dependency

73/100

High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS

-4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 29 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 68 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

70/100

Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 68. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 29 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

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
Mr Nicholas Edward James Davis Individual · British · DOB 03/1965 · age 61	—	—	sig. influencesignificant influence	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

Incorporated1997-03-10

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC11050 — Manufacture of beer

Registered office

The Brewery, Newhouse Farm Tenbury Road

Cleobury Mortimer

Kidderminster

Shropshire

DY14 8RB

England

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-01-31

Last made up to: 2025-04-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-12-16

Last: 2025-12-02