BRITISH CHLOROPHYLL COMPANY LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
00328397 · ltd · incorporated 1937-06-02
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.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
year to Apr 2025
Net worth
book net assets
Opportunity
79/100
Strong
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 20120
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Conservative operator with a 84-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 79/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 84). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (78/100).

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
9 officers (6 active, 9 linked, 8 with DOB)
88
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
12 connected companies via shared directors
81
Filing history
113 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
🔒Estimated company valuation

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

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Opportunity Score
79/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

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

Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
75
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102
Profitable
Profit before tax £299,935
Turned profitable
Returned to profit this year

Key financials

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

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-04-302024-04-30
Profit before tax£299.9k£-990.6k
Average employees182100

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
4
filings
  • 2 officers
  • 1 accounts
  • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-01-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  2. 2026-01-21
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  3. 2026-01-21
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  4. 2025-01-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  5. 2025-01-22
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  6. 2025-01-13
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
  7. 2024-01-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  8. 2024-01-24
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  9. 2024-01-15
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  10. 2023-02-06
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  11. 2022-02-03
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  12. 2021-02-10
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  13. 2020-01-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  14. 2019-01-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  15. 2018-02-22
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  16. 2018-02-22
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  17. 2018-02-22
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  18. 2018-01-23
    BANKS, Timothy Simon appointed
    director
  19. 2018-01-23
    HARPER, Tim William Lefevbre appointed
    director
  20. 2018-01-23
    VINCENT, Julia Clare appointed
    director
  21. 2015-12-31
    HARDING, Graham Victor Cory resigned
    director
  22. 2002-10-01
    PARKER, Eric resigned
    director
  23. 2001-10-04
    HARDING, Graham Victor Cory appointed
    director
  24. 1994-11-30
    PATRICK, Richard William resigned
    director
  25. 1937-06-02
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    Company incorporated
    As BRITISH CHLOROPHYLL COMPANY LIMITED

Owner dependency

63/100
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.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 84 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

70/100
Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 84 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 89 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.

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

Blankney Estates Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

🏛️
Blankney Estates Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control
ultimate parent
BRITISH CHLOROPHYLL COMPANY LIMITED
This company · 00328397

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

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Blankney Estates Limited
Corporate entity
75100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control06/04/2016

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.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1937-06-02
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC20120 — SIC 20120

Registered office

The Estate Office Temple Grange
Navenby
Lincoln
LN5 0AX
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-01-31
Last made up to: 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-01-24
Last: 2026-01-10

Officers (6 active · 3 resigned)

PARKER, John Paul Michael
secretary
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Active
BANKS, Timothy Simon
director · ~65y · appointed 2018-01-23
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Active
HARPER, Tim William Lefevbre
director · ~62y · appointed 2018-01-23
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Active
PARKER, John Paul Michael
director · ~79y
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Active
PARKER, Richard William
director · ~84y
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Active
VINCENT, Julia Clare
director · ~52y · appointed 2018-01-23
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Active
HARDING, Graham Victor Cory
director · ~74y · appointed 2001-10-04 · resigned 2015-12-31
Resigned
PARKER, Eric
director · ~115y · resigned 2002-10-01
Resigned
PATRICK, Richard William
director · ~97y · resigned 1994-11-30
Resigned

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Recent filings (113 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2026-01-29
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-01-21
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-01-21
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-01-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2025-01-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-01-23
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-01-22
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2025-01-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2024-01-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-01-24
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-01-24
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-01-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2023-02-06
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-01-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2022-02-03