THE BEAN SHOP LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC237840 · ltd · incorporated 2002-10-08
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 7.1y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Feb 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 10832
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 68-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 68). 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 7.1y

85/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 7.1 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (79/100)

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
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 (3 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)
78
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
77 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
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
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Feb 2024Feb 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-02-282024-02-28
Average employees1200-1000

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

2 signals detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
3
filings
  • • 3 officers
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (27 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-02-13
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    change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH03
  2. 2026-02-13
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  3. 2026-02-13
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  4. 2025-11-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2025-06-27
    📄
    resolution
    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  6. 2025-06-27
    📄
    memorandum-articles
    incorporation · MA
  7. 2024-11-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  8. 2023-11-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  9. 2022-11-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  10. 2021-11-11
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  11. 2021-09-24
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    mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
    mortgage · MR04
  12. 2021-09-24
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    Charge satisfied #1
  13. 2021-06-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2021-02-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  15. 2021-02-11
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  16. 2019-11-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  17. 2019-04-10
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  18. 2019-04-04
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Hsbc UK Bank PLC
  19. 2018-11-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  20. 2004-10-22
    ➕
    BRUCE, John Stuart, Dr appointed
    director
  21. 2002-10-08
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As THE BEAN SHOP LIMITED
  22. 2002-10-08
    ➕
    BRUCE, John Stuart, Dr appointed
    secretary
  23. 2002-10-08
    ➕
    BRUCE, Lorna Macdonald appointed
    director
  24. 2002-10-08
    ➕
    CLP SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-secretary
  25. 2002-10-08
    ➖
    CLP SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-secretary
  26. 2002-10-08
    ➕
    MMA NOMINEES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  27. 2002-10-08
    ➖
    MMA NOMINEES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

91/100
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 24 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 68 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

86/100
Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 68. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 24 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 24 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

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Dr John Stuart Bruce
Individual · British · DOB 12/1958 · age 68
50–75%
—50-75% shares20/09/2016
Mrs Lorna Macdonald Bruce
Individual · British · DOB 06/1976 · age 50
25–50%
—25-50% shares20/09/2016

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
Incorporated2002-10-08
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC10832 — SIC 10832

Registered office

67 George Street
Perth
PH1 5LB

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-11-30
Last made up to: 2025-02-28
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-07-11
Last: 2025-06-27

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

BRUCE, John Stuart, Dr→
secretary · appointed 2002-10-08
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Active
BRUCE, John Stuart, Dr→
director · ~68y · appointed 2004-10-22
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Active
BRUCE, Lorna Macdonald→
director · ~50y · appointed 2002-10-08
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
CLP SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2002-10-08 · resigned 2002-10-08
Resigned
MMA NOMINEES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2002-10-08 · resigned 2002-10-08
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
0
Outstanding
0
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
satisfied
HSBC
Hsbc UK Bank PLC
A registered charge1 property04/04/201924/09/2021

Recent filings (77 total)

change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2026-02-13
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-02-13
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-02-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-11-09
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-06-27
resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2025-06-27
memorandum-articles
incorporation · MA
2025-06-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-11-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-10-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-11-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-10-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-11-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-10-11
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2021-11-11
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-11-11