BEDWELL BEDDING LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
07513963 · ltd · incorporated 2011-02-02
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.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
- · Oldest live charge 7.6y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 16290
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 73-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 73). 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 7.6y
85/100
ready
Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.
- · Oldest live charge is 7.6 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
- · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.
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, 4 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
3 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
42 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.
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
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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 · accounting standard unknown| Metric | 2025-03-31 | 2024-03-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Average employees | -600 | -500 |
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.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (22 events)Click to expand
- 2025-07-28📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2025-02-13📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2025-02-13📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2025-02-13📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2024-12-09📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-12-15📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-12-09📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-09-16📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-11-10📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2019-12-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2018-12-24📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2018-10-25📄mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-datemortgage · MR01
- 2018-10-24🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Hsbc UK Bank PLC
- 2018-09-06📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2018-09-06📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2018-01-03📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2011-05-19➕SANDERSON, Peter James David appointeddirector
- 2011-05-18➖SANDERSON, Peter James David resigneddirector
- 2011-04-18➕SANDERSON, Peter James David appointeddirector
- 2011-02-02🏢Company incorporatedAs BEDWELL BEDDING LIMITED
- 2011-02-02➕SANDERSON, David appointeddirector
- 2011-02-02➕SANDERSON, Gillian Mary appointeddirector
Owner dependency
83/100
Critical — business is the founderThe business appears inseparable from the founder. Acquisition without a serious earn-out or meaningful transition period would likely destroy value.
FACTORS
- +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 15 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 73 — succession pressure is live.
- +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.
Succession & seller-readiness
83/100
Likely off-market candidateStrong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 73 years old. Natural succession window is now.
- 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
cleanNo red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)
Shareholders & ownership
3 active beneficial owners| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
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Mr David Sanderson Individual · British · DOB 09/1953 · age 73 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 06/04/2016 |
Mrs Gillian Mary Sanderson Individual · British · DOB 01/1957 · age 69 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 06/04/2016 |
Mr Peter James David Sanderson Individual · British · DOB 10/1982 · age 44 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 06/04/2016 |
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2011-02-02
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC16290 — SIC 16290
Registered office
Sandholme Farm
Skipton On Swale
Thirsk
YO7 4SB
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-02-16
Last: 2026-02-02
Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)
SANDERSON, David→
Activedirector · ~73y · appointed 2011-02-02
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SANDERSON, Gillian Mary→
Activedirector · ~69y · appointed 2011-02-02
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SANDERSON, Peter James David→
Activedirector · ~44y · appointed 2011-05-19
View their other companies + combined net worth →
SANDERSON, Peter James David→
Resigneddirector · ~44y · appointed 2011-04-18 · resigned 2011-05-18
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Mortgages & charges
1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | HSBC Hsbc UK Bank PLC | A registered charge | 1 property | 24/10/2018 | — |
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Recent filings (42 total)
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-02-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-07-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-02-13
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-02-13
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-02-13
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-02-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-02-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-02-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-02-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-09-16
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-02-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-11-10