B9 BIOGAS LTD

🌳Matureactive
NI606383 · ltd · incorporated 2011-03-01
Investment thesis
Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.
Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.
Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.
Opportunity decay
hardening · 12-months
Already tight — no obvious softening catalysts on the horizon.
  • · Thesis: well-run, low negotiation leverage
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Oct 2025
Net worth
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Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 99999
Sector: Extraterritorial bodies
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 73-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 73). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (75/100)

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
4 officers (3 active, 4 linked, 3 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
20 connected companies via shared directors
90
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.

Key financials

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

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-10-31
Average employees200

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
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (21 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-11-26
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  2. 2024-11-22
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  3. 2023-11-17
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  4. 2022-11-14
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  5. 2021-11-16
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  6. 2020-11-18
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  7. 2020-10-16
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  8. 2019-11-21
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  9. 2019-11-13
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    officers · TM01
  10. 2019-11-12
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    STOREY, Nick resigned
    director
  11. 2019-04-02
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    address · AD01
  12. 2018-11-07
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  13. 2017-12-08
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  14. 2017-11-08
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  15. 2017-09-06
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    STOREY, Nick appointed
    director
  16. 2017-09-06
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    officers · AP01
  17. 2017-04-03
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    capital · SH01
  18. 2011-03-01
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    Company incorporated
    As B9 BIOGAS LTD
  19. 2011-03-01
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    HARVEY, Robert Ian appointed
    secretary
  20. 2011-03-01
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    HARVEY, Robert Ian appointed
    director
  21. 2011-03-01
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    MCKEE, David Joseph, Dr 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 73 — succession pressure is live.

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 73 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 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

1 active beneficial owner
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Robert Ian Harvey
Individual · British · DOB 05/1953 · age 73
——sig. influencesignificant influence01/03/2017

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
Incorporated2011-03-01
Jurisdictionnorthern-ireland
Primary SIC99999 — SIC 99999

Registered office

5 Willowbank Road
Millbrook Industrial Estate
Larne
Co. Antrim
BT40 2SF
Northern Ireland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-07-31
Last made up to: 2025-10-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-15
Last: 2026-03-01

Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)

HARVEY, Robert Ian→
secretary · appointed 2011-03-01
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Active
HARVEY, Robert Ian→
director · ~73y · appointed 2011-03-01
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Active
MCKEE, David Joseph, Dr→
director · ~46y · appointed 2011-03-01
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Active
STOREY, Nick→
director · ~77y · appointed 2017-09-06 · resigned 2019-11-12
Resigned

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Recent filings (38 total)

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2025-11-26
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2025-03-04
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2024-11-22
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2024-03-07
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2023-11-17
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-01
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2022-11-14
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2022-03-02
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2021-11-16
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-03-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2020-11-18
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officers · CH01
2020-10-16
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-03-02
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accounts · AA
2019-11-21