BENBURN SPIRITS LIMITED
🌿Early-stageactive
SC733873 · ltd · incorporated 2022-05-27
Investment thesis
Growth-phase business — story-led; valuation sensitive to momentum.
Why interesting: Trading is scaling; acquirers paying for trajectory get disproportionate leverage.
Why risky: Price often leads fundamentals; dependency on founder often high.
🔒Estimated value
—
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Turnover
—
year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£25.8k
book net assets
Opportunity
70/100
Strong
What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 46342
Sector: Wholesale & retail
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
- 96090Other service activities n.e.c.
Investor take
PursueStrong opportunity: asset-holding vehicle with strong profile and acceptable with review structure.
Opportunity 70/100 (strong), bankability 70/100. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (58/100).
Data confidence
Overall: high (80/100)Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.
Company profile
address, 2 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
3 officers (2 active, 3 linked, 3 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
4 active PSC(s) of 5 total, 5 with control declared
90
Director network
4 connected companies via shared directors
57
Filing history
22 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
70/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional
Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.
Business quality
60
Adequate — check latest filings for context.
Acquirability
50
Some acquirability indicators.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.
Signals from accounts
Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declaredPositive net assets
Net assets £25,837
Cash YoY
-14%
Year on year
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
£17k
↓ 14% YoY
Net Worth
£26k
↑ 2661% YoY
Current Assets
£179k
↓ 8.0% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown| Metric | 2025-03-31 | 2024-03-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Total assets | £25.8k | £-1.0k |
| Current assets | £179.2k | £194.8k |
| Cash | £16.9k | £19.7k |
| Debtors | £750 | — |
| Net assets | £25.8k | £-1.0k |
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.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
2
filings
- • 1 confirmation-statement
- • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand
- 2025-12-17📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2025-06-19📄cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC07
- 2025-02-19📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC05
- 2025-02-19📄termination-director-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM01
- 2025-01-17➖ROBERTSON, Callum William resigneddirector
- 2024-07-09📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-01-29✏️certificate-change-of-name-companychange-of-name · CERTNM
- 2023-10-02📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-03-07📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC05
- 2023-03-07📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC05
- 2023-03-07📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2023-03-07📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC02
- 2023-03-07📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC01
- 2023-02-03📄capital-name-of-class-of-sharescapital · SH08
- 2023-02-03📄resolutionresolution · RESOLUTIONS
- 2023-02-03📄capital-allotment-sharescapital · SH01
- 2023-01-24📄change-account-reference-date-company-current-shortenedaccounts · AA01
- 2022-10-18✏️certificate-change-of-name-companychange-of-name · CERTNM
- 2022-05-27🏢Company incorporatedAs BENBURN SPIRITS LIMITED
- 2022-05-27➕BOCCOLI, Andrew appointeddirector
- 2022-05-27➕NESS, Alastair Reeder appointeddirector
- 2022-05-27➕ROBERTSON, Callum William appointeddirector
- 2022-05-27📄incorporation-companyincorporation · NEWINC
Owner dependency
58/100
Moderate — manageable with handoverSome founder dependency, but not acute. A structured handover period should cover most risk.
FACTORS
- +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
Succession & seller-readiness
36/100
Weak signalLimited succession signal. Not a near-term off-market candidate.
SIGNALS
- secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
Red flags
cleanNo red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)
Group structure
2 corporate shareholders identified. Group structure is distributed.
🏛️
Reeder Ness Ltd
Corporate parent
🏛️significant stake
Ness Construction Limited
Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares
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BENBURN SPIRITS LIMITED
This company · SC733873
Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).
Shareholders & ownership
4 active beneficial owners · fragmented| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ness Construction Limited Corporate entity | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 27/05/2022 |
Mr Andrew Boccoli Individual · British · DOB 09/1979 · age 47 | — | — | sig. influencesignificant influence | 27/05/2022 |
Reeder Ness Ltd Corporate entity | — | — | sig. influencesignificant influence | 27/05/2022 |
Mr Nigel Dudgeon Individual · British · DOB 03/1963 · age 63 | — | — | sig. influencesignificant influence | 27/05/2022 |
1 historic (ceased) PSC
- Springfield Properties (Scotland) Limitedceased 17/01/2025· significant influence
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
🔒Co-director network graph
Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.
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🔒Tailored diligence questions
7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2022-05-27
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC46342 — SIC 46342
Registered office
Unit 5 Gateway Business Park
Beancross Road
Grangemouth
FK3 8WX
Scotland
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-05
Last: 2026-02-19
Officers (2 active · 1 resigned)
BOCCOLI, Andrew→
Activedirector · ~47y · appointed 2022-05-27
View their other companies + combined net worth →
NESS, Alastair Reeder→
Activedirector · ~48y · appointed 2022-05-27
View their other companies + combined net worth →
ROBERTSON, Callum William→
Resigneddirector · ~54y · appointed 2022-05-27 · resigned 2025-01-17
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Recent filings (22 total)
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-17
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2025-06-19
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-04
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2025-02-19
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2025-02-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-07-09
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-19
certificate-change-of-name-company
change-of-name · CERTNM
2024-01-29
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-10-02
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-07
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2023-03-07
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2023-03-07
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-03-07
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2023-03-07