B4FILMS LTD.

🌳Matureactive

SC351956 · ltd · incorporated 2008-12-01

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.

Why now

Window steady · low confidence

Stable recent picture — watch for any upcoming trigger event.

Opportunity decay

approaching window · 12-months

Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.

· Oldest live charge 5.5y old — refinance window within 12 months

What changed my view

Last 30 days

No material changes in the last 30 days.

Last 90 days

No snapshot from 90 days ago — start tracking from today.

Last 180 days

No snapshot from 180 days ago — start tracking from today.

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Dec 2024

Net worth

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book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Television programming and broadcasting activities

Sector: Information & communication

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 72-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 72). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 5.5y

85/100

ready

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

· Oldest live charge is 5.5 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

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

1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)

Directors & officers

8 officers (6 active, 8 linked, 6 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

2 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

66 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

83/100Exceptional

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

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Net Worth

—

Current Assets

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Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2024-12-29	2023-12-29
Average employees	4	400

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

4 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

• 2 persons-with-significant-control
• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filings

• 2 persons-with-significant-control
• 2 confirmation-statement
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (28 events)Click to expand

2026-05-06
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2024-12-24
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2024-04-22
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accounts · AA
2023-12-20
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accounts · AA01
2022-12-21
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accounts · AA
2021-12-16
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accounts · AA
2021-09-16
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accounts · AA01
2021-01-27
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accounts · AA
2021-01-11
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mortgage · MR01
2020-12-11
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Havisham Assets Limited
2019-09-30
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accounts · AA
2018-12-13
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officers · AP01
2018-11-26
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accounts · AA
2018-11-22
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2018-11-22
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capital · SH02
2018-11-19
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RAWSON, Benjamin James appointed
director
2008-12-01
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Company incorporated
As B4FILMS LTD.
2008-12-01
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BROWN, Christopher James appointed
secretary
2008-12-01
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BROWN, Christopher James appointed
director
2008-12-01
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BROWN, James Charles appointed
director
2008-12-01
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BROWN, Jonathan Graham appointed
director
2008-12-01
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BROWN, Lesley Alana appointed
director
2008-12-01
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BRIAN REID LTD. appointed
corporate-secretary
2008-12-01
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BRIAN REID LTD. resigned
corporate-secretary
2008-12-01
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MABBOTT, Stephen George appointed
director
2008-12-01
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MABBOTT, Stephen George resigned
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

-5 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 18 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+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

83/100

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 72 years old. Natural succession window is now.
secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 18 years.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 18 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.)

Group structure

Havisham Assets Limited holds 25-50% — a significant corporate investor but not a controlling parent.

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Havisham Assets Limited

Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares

significant stake

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B4FILMS LTD.

This company · SC351956

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

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Havisham Assets Limited Corporate entity	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	19/11/2018

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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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2008-12-01

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC60200 — Television programming and broadcasting activities

Registered office

Ellon Business Centre

Broomiesburn Road

Ellon

Aberdeenshire

AB41 9RD

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-09-29

Last made up to: 2024-12-29

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-04-24

Last: 2026-04-10