BOSS BEVERAGE GASES LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
05526121 · ltd · incorporated 2005-08-03
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.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Aug 2024
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 46719
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 60-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 60). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (79/100)

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
4 officers (2 active, 4 linked, 3 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
3 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
4 connected companies via shared directors
57
Filing history
61 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
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
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Aug 2023Aug 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2024-08-262023-08-26
Average employees500500

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
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Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (22 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-05-23
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  2. 2024-05-24
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  3. 2023-05-26
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  4. 2022-05-26
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  5. 2021-05-26
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  6. 2020-05-22
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  7. 2019-05-23
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  8. 2018-05-23
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  9. 2017-05-26
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  10. 2017-01-17
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    officers · CH01
  11. 2016-08-17
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  12. 2016-05-18
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    accounts · AA01
  13. 2015-09-23
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  14. 2015-09-23
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    address · AD01
  15. 2015-05-26
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    accounts · AA
  16. 2014-08-08
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    WILDMAN, Glen resigned
    director
  17. 2006-09-20
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    HADFIELD, Julian Philip resigned
    secretary
  18. 2005-08-03
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    Company incorporated
    As BOSS BEVERAGE GASES LIMITED
  19. 2005-08-03
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    VELLOZA, David Christopher appointed
    director
  20. 2005-08-03
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    VELLOZA, John Joseph appointed
    director
  21. 2005-08-03
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    HADFIELD, Julian Philip appointed
    secretary
  22. 2005-08-03
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    WILDMAN, Glen appointed
    director

Owner dependency

84/100
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.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 21 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 60 — approaching natural succession window.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

76/100
Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS
  • secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 60. Early succession window.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 21 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 21 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.)

Group structure

J & R Gases Limited holds 25-50% — a significant corporate investor but not a controlling parent.

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J & R Gases Limited
Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares
significant stake
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BOSS BEVERAGE GASES LIMITED
This company · 05526121

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

Shareholders & ownership

3 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
J & R Gases Limited
Corporate entity
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/04/2016
Mr David Christopher Velloza
Individual · United Kingdom · DOB 07/1969 · age 57
——sig. influencesignificant influence06/04/2016
Mr John Joseph Velloza
Individual · British · DOB 12/1966 · age 60
——sig. influencesignificant influence06/04/2016

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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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2005-08-03
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC46719 — SIC 46719

Registered office

73 Billinge Road
Wigan
Lancashire
WN5 9JN

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-05-26
Last made up to: 2024-08-26
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-08-17
Last: 2025-08-03

Officers (2 active · 2 resigned)

VELLOZA, David Christopher→
director · ~57y · appointed 2005-08-03
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
VELLOZA, John Joseph→
director · ~60y · appointed 2005-08-03
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HADFIELD, Julian Philip→
secretary · appointed 2005-08-03 · resigned 2006-09-20
Resigned
WILDMAN, Glen→
director · ~66y · appointed 2005-08-03 · resigned 2014-08-08
Resigned

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Recent filings (61 total)

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2025-08-20
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2025-05-23
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2024-08-06
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2024-05-24
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2023-08-03
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2023-05-26
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2022-08-03
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2022-05-26
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2021-08-25
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2021-05-26
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2020-08-05
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2020-05-22
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2019-08-07
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2019-05-23
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2018-08-06