BRENT ENGINEERING COMPANY LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
06409913 · ltd · incorporated 2007-10-26
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 18.6y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Oct 2025
Net worth
£431.8k
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Machining
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 85-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 85). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 18.6y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 18.6 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (78/100)

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
4 officers (3 active, 4 linked, 3 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
49 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 · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £431,848

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£269k
Net Worth
£432k
Current Assets
£385k
Current Liabilities
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£0£86k£173k£259k£345k£432kOct 2024Oct 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-10-312024-10-31
Total assets£431.8k—
Current assets£385.1k—
Cash£268.6k—
Debtors£92.6k—
Net assets£431.8k—
Average employees—600

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
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
6
filings
  • • 3 officers
  • • 2 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (22 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-04-22
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  2. 2026-03-29
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    confirmation-statement · RP01CS01
  3. 2026-03-11
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    officers · CH03
  4. 2026-03-11
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  5. 2026-01-15
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  6. 2025-10-31
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    SOUTHWELL, Janet Patricia resigned
    director
  7. 2025-04-23
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  8. 2024-04-10
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  9. 2023-04-14
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  10. 2022-04-11
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  11. 2021-04-12
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  12. 2020-05-04
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  13. 2019-05-15
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  14. 2018-04-26
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  15. 2017-04-20
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  16. 2016-05-03
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  17. 2011-11-01
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    SOUTHWELL, Stephen John appointed
    director
  18. 2007-11-28
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Hsbc Bank PLC
  19. 2007-10-26
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    Company incorporated
    As BRENT ENGINEERING COMPANY LIMITED
  20. 2007-10-26
    ➕
    SOUTHWELL, Rodney Lance appointed
    secretary
  21. 2007-10-26
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    SOUTHWELL, Rodney Lance appointed
    director
  22. 2007-10-26
    ➕
    SOUTHWELL, Janet Patricia appointed
    director

Owner dependency

91/100
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 19 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 85 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

89/100
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 85 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 19 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 19 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
Mr Rodney Lance Southwell
Individual · British · DOB 09/1941 · age 85
25–50%
25–50%board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control · firm interest06/04/2016

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
Incorporated2007-10-26
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC25620 — Machining

Registered office

White Lodge, 15 Brent Street
Brent Knoll
Highbridge
Somerset
TA9 4DU

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-07-31
Last made up to: 2025-10-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-11-25
Last: 2025-11-11

Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)

SOUTHWELL, Rodney Lance→
secretary · appointed 2007-10-26
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Active
SOUTHWELL, Rodney Lance→
director · ~85y · appointed 2007-10-26
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Active
SOUTHWELL, Stephen John→
director · ~59y · appointed 2011-11-01
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Active
SOUTHWELL, Janet Patricia→
director · ~84y · appointed 2007-10-26 · resigned 2025-10-31
Resigned

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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
Debenture1 property28/11/2007—
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Recent filings (49 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-04-22
replacement-filing-of-confirmation-statement-with-made-up-date
confirmation-statement · RP01CS01
2026-03-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-16
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2026-03-11
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-03-11
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2026-01-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-04-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-11-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-04-10
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-11-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-04-14
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-11-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-04-11
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-11-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-04-12