BRUDOLFF HOTELS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC094745 · ltd · incorporated 1985-08-16

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 40.5y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Mar 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

79/100

Strong

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What this business does

Primary activity: Hotels and similar accommodation

Sector: Accommodation & food service

Investor take

Pursue

Leverage-led grower with a 71-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 79/100 (strong), bankability 70/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 71). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 6 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (78/100).

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Refinance opportunity

6 live charges · oldest 40.5y

75/100

ready

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

· Oldest live charge is 40.5 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.
· Profitable and stable/growing — lender coverage supportable.

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

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

6 officers (5 active, 6 linked, 4 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

3 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

107 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

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Opportunity Score

79/100Strong

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

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

Business quality

Adequate — check latest filings for context.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102

Profitable

Profit before tax £24,554

Turned profitable

Returned to profit this year

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	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Profit before tax	£24.6k	£-185.7k
Average employees	91	9000

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 accounts
• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand

2025-12-22
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2024-12-19
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2023-12-19
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2023-04-28
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2023-03-30
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2022-03-30
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2021-03-26
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2019-11-18
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2018-12-12
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2017-10-13
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2016-12-18
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2015-12-31
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2015-12-18
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2015-01-05
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2004-02-03
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Charge registered #6
Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
2000-06-28
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Charge registered #5
Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
1997-05-01
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SMITH, Mary June appointed
director
1995-07-10
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Charge registered #4
Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
1993-09-01
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BARRIE, Marjory Ann appointed
director
1993-04-20
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Charge registered #3
Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
1991-08-28
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STEVENSON, Angus Clark resigned
director
1989-05-04
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Charge registered #2
Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
1985-11-01
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
1985-08-16
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Company incorporated
As BRUDOLFF HOTELS LIMITED

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

-4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 33 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 71 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

90/100

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 71 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 33 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 41 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

1 low

6 live charges

low

Heavily leveraged with multiple live security positions — understand the capital structure before proceeding.

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Robert Alexander Jamieson Smith Individual · British · DOB 09/1957 · age 69	25–50%	—	25-50% shares	06/04/2016
Mr James Wallace Manson Individual · British · DOB 11/1955 · age 71	25–50%	—	25-50% shares	06/04/2016

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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8 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

Incorporated1985-08-16

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC55100 — Hotels and similar accommodation

Registered office

The Craighaar Hotel, Waterton

Road, Bankhead

Aberdeen

Aberdeenshire

AB21 9HS

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-12-29

Last: 2025-12-15

Officers (5 active · 1 resigned)

SMITH, Robert Alexander Jamieson→

secretary

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Active

BARRIE, Marjory Ann→

director · ~65y · appointed 1993-09-01

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Active

MANSON, James Wallace→

director · ~71y

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Active

SMITH, Mary June→

director · ~58y · appointed 1997-05-01

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Active

SMITH, Robert Alexander Jamieson→

director · ~69y

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Active

STEVENSON, Angus Clark→

director · resigned 1991-08-28

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:6 of 6 shown

		Type	Properties
outstanding	Virgin Money Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company	Standard security	1 property	03/02/2004	—
outstanding	Virgin Money Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company	Standard security	1 property	28/06/2000	—
outstanding	Virgin Money Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company	Standard security	1 property	10/07/1995	—
outstanding	Virgin Money Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company	Standard security	1 property	20/04/1993	—
outstanding	Virgin Money Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company	Standard security	1 property	04/05/1989	—
outstanding	Virgin Money Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company	Floating charge	1 property	01/11/1985	—

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Recent filings (107 total)

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accounts · AA

2025-12-22

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2025-12-15

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accounts · AA

2024-12-19

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2024-12-16

accounts-with-accounts-type-full

accounts · AA

2023-12-19

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2023-12-15

accounts-amended-with-accounts-type-full

accounts · AAMD

2023-04-28

accounts-with-accounts-type-full

accounts · AA

2023-03-30

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2022-12-15

accounts-with-accounts-type-full

accounts · AA

2022-03-30

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2021-12-15

accounts-with-accounts-type-full

accounts · AA

2021-03-26

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2020-12-15

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2019-12-16

accounts-with-accounts-type-full

accounts · AA

2019-11-18