ARTEFACT BREWING LTD

🏛️Establishedactive

11966525 · ltd · incorporated 2019-04-29

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

—

year to Apr 2025

Net worth

£-3.3k

book net assets

Opportunity

71/100

Strong

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What this business does

Primary activity: Manufacture of beer

Sector: Manufacturing

Investor take

Pass (distressed without resilience)

Distressed active trading company — structural issues outweigh the discount.

Opportunity 71/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Deleverage or restructure. Leverage at 100% of assets — consider sale of non-core assets or equity injection. Most likely exit: distressed disposal / insolvency (65/100).

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

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

5 officers (2 active, 5 linked, 5 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared

Director network

Network not yet resolved

Filing history

17 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

71/100Strong

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.

Business quality

Adequate — check latest filings for context.

Acquirability

Some acquirability indicators.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared

Negative net assets

Liabilities exceed assets by £3,270

High leverage

Liabilities are 100% of total assets

Net assets shrinking

Down £10,811 YoY

Leverage

100%

Liabilities / Total assets

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

-£3k

↓ 143% YoY

Current Assets

£25k

↓ 27% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-04-30	2024-04-30
Total assets	£32.8k	£44.0k
Current assets	£24.8k	£34.2k
Net assets	£-3.3k	£7.5k

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

filings

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (19 events)Click to expand

2026-01-23
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2025-04-28
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accounts · AA
2024-01-29
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accounts · AA
2023-01-26
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accounts · AA
2022-01-26
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accounts · AA
2020-12-21
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accounts · AA
2019-06-25
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LAWSON, Angela Mary resigned
director
2019-06-25
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PHILLIPS, Diane Joy resigned
director
2019-06-25
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PHILLIPS, Murray Ernest resigned
director
2019-06-25
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officers · TM01
2019-06-25
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2019-06-25
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officers · TM01
2019-04-29
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Company incorporated
As ARTEFACT BREWING LTD
2019-04-29
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LAWSON-PHILLIPS, Katherine Harriet appointed
director
2019-04-29
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PHILLIPS, James Peter appointed
director
2019-04-29
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LAWSON, Angela Mary appointed
director
2019-04-29
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PHILLIPS, Diane Joy appointed
director
2019-04-29
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PHILLIPS, Murray Ernest appointed
director
2019-04-29
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incorporation · NEWINC

Owner dependency

58/100

Moderate — manageable with handover

Some founder dependency, but not acute. A structured handover period should cover most risk.

FACTORS

+Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.

Succession & seller-readiness

36/100

Weak signal

Limited succession signal. Not a near-term off-market candidate.

SIGNALS

secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.

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

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mrs Katherine Harriet Lawson-Phillips Individual · British · DOB 01/1991 · age 35	25–50%	25–50%	board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control	29/04/2019
Mr James Peter Phillips Individual · British · DOB 05/1989 · age 37	25–50%	25–50%	board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control	29/04/2019

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

Incorporated2019-04-29

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC11050 — Manufacture of beer

Registered office

Stayer Cottage Bury Road

Ixworth

Bury St. Edmunds

Suffolk

IP31 2HX

England

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-01-31

Last made up to: 2025-04-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-05-11

Last: 2026-04-27

Officers (2 active · 3 resigned)

LAWSON-PHILLIPS, Katherine Harriet→

director · ~35y · appointed 2019-04-29

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

PHILLIPS, James Peter→

director · ~37y · appointed 2019-04-29

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

LAWSON, Angela Mary→

director · ~69y · appointed 2019-04-29 · resigned 2019-06-25

Resigned

PHILLIPS, Diane Joy→

director · ~69y · appointed 2019-04-29 · resigned 2019-06-25

Resigned

PHILLIPS, Murray Ernest→

director · ~70y · appointed 2019-04-29 · resigned 2019-06-25

Resigned

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