BOARDLEY & BREWER LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
04243738 · ltd · incorporated 2001-06-29
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 10.6y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£276.9k
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Manufacture of metal structures and parts of structures
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 79-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 79). 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 10.6y

85/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 10.6 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (77/100)

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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
3 officers (3 active, 3 linked, 2 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
57 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
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
80
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 · FRS 102
Positive net assets
Net assets £276,919
Net assets shrinking
Down £8,625 YoY
Cash YoY
+19%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£251k
↑ 19% YoY
Net Worth
£277k
↓ 3.0% YoY
Current Assets
£296k
↑ 1.0% YoY
Current Liabilities
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£0£59k£118k£178k£237k£296kMar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Total assets£287.1k£316.9k
Current assets£295.9k£293.0k
Cash£250.9k£210.5k
Debtors£30.0k£67.4k
Net assets£276.9k£285.5k

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
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (20 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-11
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  2. 2024-12-12
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  3. 2024-11-21
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  4. 2024-04-02
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  5. 2023-01-25
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  6. 2022-01-28
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  7. 2021-02-20
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  8. 2020-06-04
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  9. 2019-03-06
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  10. 2018-04-06
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  11. 2017-07-04
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  12. 2017-03-24
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  13. 2016-07-04
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  14. 2016-05-08
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  15. 2015-12-29
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    mortgage · MR01
  16. 2015-12-29
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Hsbc Bank PLC
  17. 2001-06-29
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    Company incorporated
    As BOARDLEY & BREWER LIMITED
  18. 2001-06-29
    ➕
    BREWER, Marilyn Gay appointed
    secretary
  19. 2001-06-29
    ➕
    BOARDLEY, Richard Anthony appointed
    director
  20. 2001-06-29
    ➕
    BREWER, Marilyn Gay appointed
    director

Owner dependency

98/100
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
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "BOARDLEY" — strong identity link between founder and business.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 25 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 79 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

96/100
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 79 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 25 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 25 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.
  • 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
Miss Marilyn Gay Brewer
Individual · British · DOB 02/1947 · age 79
25–50%
—25-50% shares23/06/2017

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
Incorporated2001-06-29
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC25110 — Manufacture of metal structures and parts of structures

Registered office

Copse Farm
Moorhurst Lane, Holmwood
Dorking
Surrey
RH5 4LJ

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-07-07
Last: 2026-06-23

Officers (3 active · 0 resigned)

BREWER, Marilyn Gay→
secretary · appointed 2001-06-29
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Active
BOARDLEY, Richard Anthony→
director · ~68y · appointed 2001-06-29
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Active
BREWER, Marilyn Gay→
director · ~79y · appointed 2001-06-29
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Active

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
HSBC
Hsbc Bank PLC
A registered charge1 property29/12/2015—
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Recent filings (57 total)

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confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-06-26
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accounts · AA
2025-12-11
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-06-26
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accounts · AA
2024-12-12
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accounts · AA01
2024-11-21
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-06-25
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accounts · AA
2024-04-02
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-07-05
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accounts · AA
2023-01-25
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2022-06-28
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2022-01-28
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2021-06-30
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2021-02-20
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2020-06-23
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accounts · AA
2020-06-04