CHAPPELL WHISKY BROKERS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC180651 · ltd · incorporated 1997-11-17
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
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 13.0y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Oct 2024
Net worth
£2.12M
book net assets
Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Other business support service activities n.e.c.
Sector: Administrative & support services
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 74-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 74). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 13.0y

85/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 13.0 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (82/100)

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
75
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
5 officers (5 active, 5 linked, 4 with DOB)
86
Ownership & PSC
3 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
9 connected companies via shared directors
72
Filing history
67 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
83/100Exceptional
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
85
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 105 (micro)
Positive net assets
Net assets £2,119,820

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
£2.1m
~ YoY
Current Assets
£2.4m
↓ 1.4% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
£0£482k£964k£1.4m£1.9m£2.4mOct 2023Oct 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 105 (micro)
Metric2024-10-312023-10-31
Total assets£2.18M£2.18M
Current assets£2.38M£2.41M
Net assets£2.12M£2.11M

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
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Corporate timeline (22 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-07-29
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  2. 2024-07-25
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  3. 2023-07-26
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  4. 2022-07-27
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  5. 2022-06-01
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  6. 2022-06-01
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  7. 2022-02-24
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  8. 2021-07-30
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  9. 2020-07-31
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  10. 2019-11-13
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  11. 2019-11-13
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    officers · AP01
  12. 2019-11-01
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    HUSSAIN, Kirsty Isobel appointed
    director
  13. 2019-11-01
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    O'NEILL, Gillian Neilson appointed
    director
  14. 2019-07-31
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  15. 2018-06-29
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  16. 2017-04-28
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  17. 2016-06-10
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  18. 2013-05-14
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Hsbc Bank PLC
  19. 1997-11-17
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    Company incorporated
    As CHAPPELL WHISKY BROKERS LIMITED
  20. 1997-11-17
    ➕
    TURNBULL, Elizabeth Anne appointed
    secretary
  21. 1997-11-17
    ➕
    TURNBULL, Elizabeth Anne appointed
    director
  22. 1997-11-17
    ➕
    TURNBULL, John Neilson appointed
    director

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 29 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 74 — 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 74 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 29 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 29 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

3 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mrs Gillian Neilson O'Neill
Individual · British · DOB 03/1978 · age 48
25–50%
—25-50% shares13/11/2019
Mrs Kirsty Isobel Hussain
Individual · British · DOB 09/1979 · age 47
25–50%
—25-50% shares13/11/2019
Mrs Elizabeth Anne Turnbull
Individual · British · DOB 01/1953 · age 73
25–50%
—25-50% shares10/11/2016

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
Incorporated1997-11-17
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC82990 — Other business support service activities n.e.c.

Registered office

Chappell House, Chappell Street
Barrhead
Glasgow
G78 1EL

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-07-31
Last made up to: 2024-10-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-11-27
Last: 2025-11-13

Officers (5 active · 0 resigned)

TURNBULL, Elizabeth Anne→
secretary · appointed 1997-11-17
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Active
HUSSAIN, Kirsty Isobel→
director · ~47y · appointed 2019-11-01
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Active
O'NEILL, Gillian Neilson→
director · ~48y · appointed 2019-11-01
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Active
TURNBULL, Elizabeth Anne→
director · ~73y · appointed 1997-11-17
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Active
TURNBULL, John Neilson→
director · ~74y · appointed 1997-11-17
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Active

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
HSBC
Hsbc Bank PLC
A registered charge1 property14/05/2013—
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Recent filings (67 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-11-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-07-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-11-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-07-25
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-11-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-07-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-11-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-07-27
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2022-06-01
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2022-06-01
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2022-02-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-11-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-07-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-11-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2020-07-31