BRENMATCH LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
03496512 · ltd · incorporated 1998-01-21
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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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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Opportunity
81/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Fund management activities
Sector: Financial & insurance
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 86-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 86). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (76/100)

Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
7 officers (5 active, 7 linked, 4 with DOB)
81
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
71 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
81/100Exceptional
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
85
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Average employees00

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
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filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-11-18
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  2. 2025-08-11
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    officers · AP01
  3. 2025-07-29
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    HERRING, Julie Kate appointed
    director
  4. 2024-12-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2023-12-01
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  6. 2022-09-29
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  7. 2021-10-27
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    accounts · AA
  8. 2020-09-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2020-03-02
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    HERRING, David Peter Lionel appointed
    director
  10. 2020-03-02
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    officers · AP01
  11. 2019-11-18
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  12. 2018-11-19
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  13. 2017-12-21
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  14. 2016-11-14
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  15. 2016-01-21
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  16. 2015-11-23
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  17. 2015-01-20
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  18. 1998-03-04
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    HERRING, Peter Lionel appointed
    secretary
  19. 1998-03-04
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    HERRING, Helen appointed
    director
  20. 1998-03-04
    ➕
    HERRING, Peter Lionel appointed
    director
  21. 1998-03-04
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    WATERLOW SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  22. 1998-03-04
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    WATERLOW NOMINEES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director
  23. 1998-01-21
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    Company incorporated
    As BRENMATCH LIMITED
  24. 1998-01-21
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    WATERLOW SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  25. 1998-01-21
    ➕
    WATERLOW NOMINEES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-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 28 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 86 — 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 86 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 28 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
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Peter Lionel Herring
Individual · British · DOB 05/1940 · age 86
——sig. influencesignificant influence20/01/2017

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
Incorporated1998-01-21
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC66300 — Fund management activities

Registered office

Dancing Ghyll
Grange In Borrowdale
Keswick
CA12 5UQ

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-02-03
Last: 2026-01-20

Officers (5 active · 2 resigned)

HERRING, Peter Lionel→
secretary · appointed 1998-03-04
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Active
HERRING, David Peter Lionel→
director · ~55y · appointed 2020-03-02
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Active
HERRING, Helen→
director · ~84y · appointed 1998-03-04
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Active
HERRING, Julie Kate→
director · ~55y · appointed 2025-07-29
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Active
HERRING, Peter Lionel→
director · ~86y · appointed 1998-03-04
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Active
WATERLOW SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1998-01-21 · resigned 1998-03-04
Resigned
WATERLOW NOMINEES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 1998-01-21 · resigned 1998-03-04
Resigned

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Recent filings (71 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-01-29
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-11-18
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2025-08-11
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-02-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-11
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-02-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-01
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-02-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-09-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-01-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-10-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-01-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-09-09
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2020-03-02
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-01-20