2 BOBS BREWING COMPANY LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
07486870 · ltd · incorporated 2011-01-10
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
£-7.7k
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Support activities to performing arts
Sector: Arts, entertainment & recreation
Investor take
Pass (distressed without resilience)
Distressed active trading company — structural issues outweigh the discount.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 65). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: high (82/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

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
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 4 with DOB)
86
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
11 connected companies via shared directors
78
Filing history
38 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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 105 (micro)
Negative net assets
Liabilities exceed assets by £7,699

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
-£8k
↓ 25% YoY
Current Assets
£501
↑ 80% YoY
Current Liabilities
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-£8k-£6k-£4k-£3k-£1k£501Jan 2024Jan 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 105 (micro)
Metric2025-01-312024-01-31
Total assets£-7.0k£-5.8k
Current assets£501£278
Net assets£-7.7k£-6.2k

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
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filings
Last 90 days
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Last 180 days
1
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  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-10-30
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  2. 2024-10-31
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  3. 2023-11-21
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  4. 2023-01-05
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    officers · AP01
  5. 2023-01-04
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    BRADLEY, Robert John appointed
    director
  6. 2022-10-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
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  7. 2021-10-22
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  8. 2020-11-30
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  9. 2019-10-30
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  10. 2018-10-12
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  11. 2018-01-08
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  12. 2017-05-04
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  13. 2017-01-31
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  14. 2017-01-30
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    BRADLEY, Robert John appointed
    secretary
  15. 2016-09-29
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  16. 2016-01-26
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  17. 2016-01-26
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  18. 2011-11-13
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    BRADLEY, Robert John resigned
    director
  19. 2011-01-10
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    Company incorporated
    As 2 BOBS BREWING COMPANY LIMITED
  20. 2011-01-10
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    WALKER, Ian Robert appointed
    director
  21. 2011-01-10
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    BRADLEY, Robert appointed
    director
  22. 2011-01-10
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    BRADLEY, Robert resigned
    director
  23. 2011-01-10
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    BRADLEY, Robert John appointed
    director

Owner dependency

83/100
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 15 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 65 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

79/100
Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 65. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 15 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 15 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 Ian Robert Walker
Individual · British · DOB 05/1963 · age 63
25–50%
—25-50% shares30/06/2016
Mr Robert John Bradley
Individual · British · DOB 01/1961 · age 65
25–50%
—25-50% shares30/06/2016

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
Incorporated2011-01-10
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC90020 — Support activities to performing arts

Registered office

145 Holmsley Lane Holmsley Lane
Woodlesford
Leeds
LS26 8SB
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-10-31
Last made up to: 2025-01-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-01-22
Last: 2026-01-08

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

BRADLEY, Robert John→
secretary · appointed 2017-01-30
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Active
BRADLEY, Robert John→
director · ~65y · appointed 2023-01-04
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Active
WALKER, Ian Robert→
director · ~63y · appointed 2011-01-10
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BRADLEY, Robert→
director · ~66y · appointed 2011-01-10 · resigned 2011-01-10
Resigned
BRADLEY, Robert John→
director · ~65y · appointed 2011-01-10 · resigned 2011-11-13
Resigned

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Recent filings (38 total)

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confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-01-09
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accounts · AA
2025-10-30
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-01-22
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accounts · AA
2024-10-31
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-02-20
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accounts · AA
2023-11-21
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-02-10
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officers · AP01
2023-01-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-10-27
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-10-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-03-18
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accounts · AA
2020-11-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-01-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2019-10-30