HENDRE DISTILLERY LTD
🏛️Establishedactive
11675025 · ltd · incorporated 2018-11-13
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 6.7y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£-40.4k
book net assets
Opportunity
79/100
Strong
What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 11010
Sector: Manufacturing
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
- 11070SIC 11070
- 70229Management consultancy activities other than financial management
Investor take
Pass (distressed without resilience)Distressed active trading company — structural issues outweigh the discount.
Opportunity 79/100 (strong), bankability 80/100. High owner-dependency — earn-out structure likely required for clean transition. 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 6.7y
85/100
ready
Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.
- · Oldest live charge is 6.7 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
- · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.
Data confidence
Overall: high (81/100)Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.
Company profile
address, 3 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
3 officers (3 active, 3 linked, 3 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
3 connected companies via shared directors
54
Filing history
18 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
79/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional
Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.
Business quality
65
Adequate — check latest filings for context.
Acquirability
75
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 declaredNegative net assets
Liabilities exceed assets by £40,367
Very low cash
Cash position: £5
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
£5
Net Worth
-£40k
↓ 26% YoY
Current Assets
£621
↑ 13% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown| Metric | 2025-03-31 | 2024-03-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Total assets | £-16.9k | £919 |
| Current assets | £621 | £548 |
| Cash | £5 | — |
| Debtors | £111 | — |
| Net assets | £-40.4k | £-32.0k |
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.
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 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (16 events)Click to expand
- 2025-12-23📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-09-03📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2023-08-07📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-02-15📄change-account-reference-date-company-current-extendedaccounts · AA01
- 2022-01-20📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-12-22📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-01-07📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2019-10-25📄mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-datemortgage · MR01
- 2019-10-17🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Lloyds Bank PLC
- 2019-02-05➕WILLIAMS, Alan John appointeddirector
- 2019-02-05➕WILLIAMS, Victoria Nancy appointeddirector
- 2019-02-05📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2019-02-05📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2018-11-13🏢Company incorporatedAs HENDRE DISTILLERY LTD
- 2018-11-13➕LEYSHON, Sioned Haf appointeddirector
- 2018-11-13📄incorporation-companyincorporation · NEWINC
Owner dependency
73/100
High — earn-out structure requiredMaterial founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.
FACTORS
- +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
60/100
Strong succession signalMultiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 73 years old. Natural succession window is now.
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
1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Miss Sioned Haf Leyshon Individual · British · DOB 02/1989 · age 37 | 75–100% | 75–100% | board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control | 13/11/2018 |
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
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7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2018-11-13
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC11010 — SIC 11010
Registered office
Hendre Glyn Farm
Upper Llanover
Abergavenny
Monmouthshire
NP7 9ER
United Kingdom
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-11-18
Last: 2025-11-04
Officers (3 active · 0 resigned)
LEYSHON, Sioned Haf→
Activedirector · ~37y · appointed 2018-11-13
View their other companies + combined net worth →
WILLIAMS, Alan John→
Activedirector · ~73y · appointed 2019-02-05
View their other companies + combined net worth →
WILLIAMS, Victoria Nancy→
Activedirector · ~65y · appointed 2019-02-05
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Click a director name to see their full track record across all companies.
Mortgages & charges
1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Lloyds Banking Group Lloyds Bank PLC | A registered charge | 1 property | 17/10/2019 | — |
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Recent filings (18 total)
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-11-04
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-11-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-09-03
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-11-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-08-07
change-account-reference-date-company-current-extended
accounts · AA01
2023-02-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-11-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-01-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-11-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-12-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-11-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-01-07
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-11-14
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2019-10-25