HAVANA LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

NI631311 · ltd · incorporated 2015-05-14

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 Sept 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

79/100

Strong

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What this business does

Primary activity: Activities of other holding companies n.e.c.

Sector: Financial & insurance

Investor take

Pursue

Asset-holding vehicle with a 72-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 79/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 72). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: high (83/100)

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

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

7 officers (5 active, 7 linked, 5 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

0 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared

Director network

25 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

33 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

79/100Strong

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

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

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-09-30	2024-09-30
Average employees	0	0

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (26 events)Click to expand

2026-04-23
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accounts · AA
2025-05-22
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accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2024-06-14
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accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2023-06-05
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accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2022-06-21
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accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2021-06-29
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accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2020-12-16
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2020-12-16
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termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2020-12-14
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BOOTH, Roy Wilson resigned
secretary
2020-12-14
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BOOTH, Roy Wilson resigned
director
2020-11-04
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2020-11-04
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officers · AP03
2020-11-01
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STUART, John David appointed
secretary
2020-11-01
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STUART, John David appointed
director
2020-06-23
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accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2019-08-16
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notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control-statement
persons-with-significant-control · PSC08
2019-08-12
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2019-06-21
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accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2018-09-18
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2018-08-14
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BOOTH, Roy Wilson appointed
director
2018-06-29
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accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2015-05-14
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Company incorporated
As HAVANA LIMITED
2015-05-14
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JENNINGS, James David appointed
director
2015-05-14
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JENNINGS, Peter William appointed
director
2015-05-14
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JENNINGS, Thomas James appointed
director
2015-05-14
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BOOTH, Roy Wilson appointed
secretary

Owner dependency

63/100

High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS

-4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 72 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

65/100

Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 72 years old. Natural succession window is now.
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.)

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2015-05-14

Jurisdictionnorthern-ireland

Primary SIC64209 — Activities of other holding companies n.e.c.

Registered office

16 Talbot Street

Saint Anne's Square

Belfast

Co. Antrim

BT1 2NF

Northern Ireland

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-06-30

Last made up to: 2025-09-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-08-30

Last: 2025-08-16

Officers (5 active · 2 resigned)

STUART, John David→

secretary · appointed 2020-11-01

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Active

JENNINGS, James David→

director · ~44y · appointed 2015-05-14

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Active

JENNINGS, Peter William→

director · ~43y · appointed 2015-05-14

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Active

JENNINGS, Thomas James→

director · ~72y · appointed 2015-05-14

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Active

STUART, John David→

director · ~58y · appointed 2020-11-01

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Active

BOOTH, Roy Wilson→

secretary · appointed 2015-05-14 · resigned 2020-12-14

Resigned

BOOTH, Roy Wilson→

director · ~68y · appointed 2018-08-14 · resigned 2020-12-14

Resigned

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