HARVIESTOUN BREWERY LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC084914 · ltd · incorporated 1983-10-05

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 30.2y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Mar 2025

Net worth

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book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Manufacture of beer

Sector: Manufacturing

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 87-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 87). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

6 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 30.2y

70/100

ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

· Oldest live charge is 30.2 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
· Legal-friction score 20/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (84/100)

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

6 charges (6/6 with lender, 6/6 with type)

Directors & officers

21 officers (6 active, 21 linked, 16 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

16 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

158 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

80/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

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Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Average employees	20	1900

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

filings

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 officers
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (63 events)Click to expand

2026-01-29
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officers · TM01
2026-01-20
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ORR, James Alexander Macconnell resigned
director
2026-01-05
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-03-31
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-04-16
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MCKNIGHT, Andrew Robert appointed
director
2024-04-16
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officers · AP01
2024-04-03
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-11-06
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MACDONALD, Angus Duncan Forbes appointed
director
2023-11-06
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termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2023-11-06
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2023-10-31
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SNODGRASS, Ian James resigned
secretary
2023-03-24
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-02-13
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notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2023-01-25
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2023-01-25
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gazette · DISS40
2023-01-24
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gazette · GAZ1
2023-01-23
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2023-01-23
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2023-01-05
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GIUDICI, Kevin Giovanni resigned
director
2023-01-04
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COOK, Stuart Thomas resigned
director
2022-01-06
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-08-04
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2021-08-04
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2021-08-01
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COOK, Stuart Thomas appointed
director
2021-08-01
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GIUDICI, Kevin Giovanni appointed
director
2021-04-26
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-01-03
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2018-04-01
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CASELY, Bruce Gordon Fraser resigned
director
2017-12-11
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KNOWLES, Toby Jason Kelly resigned
director
2017-11-23
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CASELY, Bruce Gordon Fraser appointed
director
2017-08-01
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CAIL, Ian Stuart appointed
director
2014-05-06
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MILLER, Christopher Stuart resigned
director
2014-02-06
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CRAWLEY, Stephen Thomas resigned
director
2013-10-01
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KNOWLES, Toby Jason Kelly appointed
director
2013-09-01
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MACDONALD, Catherine Anne appointed
director
2013-09-01
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ORR, Caroline Rosemary appointed
director
2011-12-17
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Charge satisfied #4
2011-12-17
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Charge satisfied #3
2011-12-17
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Charge satisfied #2
2011-12-15
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Charge registered #6
Lender: Clydesdale Bank PLC
2011-10-13
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Charge registered #5
Lender: Clydesdale Bank PLC
2009-08-11
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MILLER, Christopher Stuart resigned
secretary
2009-08-11
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SNODGRASS, Ian James appointed
secretary
2009-03-24
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MILLER, Christopher Stuart appointed
secretary
2009-01-01
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MILLER, Christopher Stuart appointed
director
2008-04-04
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BELL, James resigned
secretary
2008-04-04
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BELL, James resigned
director
2008-04-03
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ORR, James Alexander Macconnell appointed
director
2006-04-24
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CRAWLEY, Stephen Thomas appointed
director
2006-01-27
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Charge satisfied #1

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Owner dependency

73/100

High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS

-6 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 20 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 87 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

80/100

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 87 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 20 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
supportingClean filings + long tenure: Disciplined long-tenure operator — classic lifestyle-business pattern that often sells quietly.

Red flags

1 med ·

Charge satisfaction-then-recreation pattern

medium

Multiple instances where a charge was satisfied and a new charge created within 6 months. Suggests active refinancing cycle.

Group structure

Harviestoun Brewery (Holdings) Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Harviestoun Brewery (Holdings) Limited

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control

ultimate parent

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HARVIESTOUN BREWERY LIMITED

This company · SC084914

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Harviestoun Brewery (Holdings) Limited Corporate entity	75–100%	75–100%	board controlsig. influence75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control · significant influence · firm interest	13/02/2023

1 historic (ceased) PSC

Mr Ian James Snodgrassceased 25/01/2023· significant influence · firm interest

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

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Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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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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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated1983-10-05

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC11050 — Manufacture of beer

Registered office

. Alva Industrial Estate

Alva

Clackmannanshire

FK12 5DQ

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-11-17

Last: 2025-11-03