ON POINT BREW COMPANY LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
06795650 · ltd · incorporated 2009-01-20
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 Jan 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Manufacture of beer
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 80-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 80). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (72/100)

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
1 year of iXBRL accounts extracted (no YoY comparison) + narrative notes parsed
50
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
2 officers (2 active, 2 linked, 2 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
45 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

1 year extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-01-31
Average employees2

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

2 signals 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
0
filings
Last 180 days
5
filings
  • • 2 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 officers
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (20 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-04-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2026-01-30
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    change-account-reference-date-company-current-shortened
    accounts · AA01
  3. 2026-01-26
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  4. 2026-01-26
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  5. 2025-01-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2024-03-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2024-01-22
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    change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
    accounts · AA01
  8. 2023-01-26
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  9. 2023-01-26
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  10. 2022-09-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  11. 2021-11-09
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  12. 2021-10-20
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    DENT, Oliver Patrick appointed
    director
  13. 2021-10-13
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  14. 2021-07-05
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  15. 2021-06-11
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    resolution
    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  16. 2020-05-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  17. 2020-03-12
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  18. 2019-08-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  19. 2009-01-20
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    Company incorporated
    As ON POINT BREW COMPANY LIMITED
  20. 2009-01-20
    ➕
    WATTS, Keith Graham appointed
    director

Owner dependency

88/100
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 17 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 80 — succession pressure is live.
  • +No director turnover: Company is 17 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.

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 80 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 17 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 17 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

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Oliver Patrick Dent
Individual · British · DOB 08/1985 · age 41
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting07/12/2021
Mr Keith Graham Watts
Individual · British · DOB 05/1946 · age 80
25–50%
25–50%board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control06/04/2016

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
Incorporated2009-01-20
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC11050 — Manufacture of beer

Registered office

(Watts) Yew Tree Cottage Mynyddbach
Shirenewton
Chepstow
NP16 6RN
Wales

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-10-29
Last made up to: 2025-01-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-02-03
Last: 2026-01-20

Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)

DENT, Oliver Patrick→
director · ~41y · appointed 2021-10-20
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Active
WATTS, Keith Graham→
director · ~80y · appointed 2009-01-20
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Recent filings (45 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-04-01
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-01-30
change-account-reference-date-company-current-shortened
accounts · AA01
2026-01-30
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-01-26
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2026-01-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-01-30
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-01-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-03-27
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-02-06
change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
accounts · AA01
2024-01-22
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-02-07
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2023-01-26
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-01-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2022-09-26
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-02-08