A.G.WRIGHT & SON,(FARMS)LIMITED

💤Zombieactive
00486162 · ltd · incorporated 1950-09-08
Investment thesis
Zombie company — trading but stalled; unlikely mover.
Why interesting: Quiet, steady; could be a succession or carve-out candidate with the right conversation.
Why risky: No growth signal; thin margin for error on price.
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Turnover
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year to Oct 2024
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds
Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 65-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 65). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 56.4y

30/100
under pressure

Refinance would be pressure-driven, not opportunity-driven. Expect tighter margins and covenant scrutiny.

  • · Oldest live charge is 56.4 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Distress signals active — lender appetite narrows.

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
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
6 officers (2 active, 6 linked, 4 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
10 connected companies via shared directors
75
Filing history
119 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£0Oct 2023Oct 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-10-312023-10-31
Average employees18001900

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
  • • 3 persons-with-significant-control
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (27 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-01-23
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
  2. 2026-01-23
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  3. 2026-01-15
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  4. 2025-07-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2024-07-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2023-07-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2022-06-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2021-10-07
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    change-account-reference-date-company-current-extended
    accounts · AA01
  9. 2021-07-08
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2020-10-30
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    officers · TM01
  11. 2020-10-04
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    WRIGHT, Godfrey Richard Warde resigned
    director
  12. 2020-09-14
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  13. 2020-07-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2020-07-11
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    WRIGHT, Angela Christine resigned
    director
  15. 2019-07-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  16. 2018-10-04
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    THORP, James Andrew resigned
    director
  17. 2018-10-04
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  18. 2018-07-05
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  19. 2018-02-19
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    officers · AP03
  20. 2018-02-06
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    WRIGHT, Nicholas Richard Wale appointed
    secretary
  21. 2018-02-06
    ➖
    WRIGHT, Angela Christine resigned
    secretary
  22. 2015-02-27
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    THORP, James Andrew appointed
    director
  23. 2008-07-17
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  24. 2008-06-13
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    Charge satisfied #1
  25. 2002-01-23
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    WRIGHT, Nicholas Richard Wale appointed
    director
  26. 1969-11-20
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Swiss Israel Trade LTD
  27. 1950-09-08
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    Company incorporated
    As A.G.WRIGHT & SON,(FARMS)LIMITED

Owner dependency

100/100
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
  • +Sole director: Only one active director — all governance concentrated on one person.
  • +Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "WRIGHT" — strong identity link between founder and business.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 24 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 65 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

95/100
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 65. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • primarySole active director: Only one director in control. No visible successor — buyers solve the succession problem.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 24 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 76 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

Nicholas Wright Discretionary Settlement 2025 is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Nicholas Wright Discretionary Settlement 2025
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control
ultimate parent
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A.G.WRIGHT & SON,(FARMS)LIMITED
This company · 00486162

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
Nicholas Wright Discretionary Settlement 2025
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control25/11/2025
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Mr Nicholas Richard Wale Wrightceased 25/11/2025· 75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

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8 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
Incorporated1950-09-08
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC01110 — Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds

Registered office

Badlingham Manor
Badlingham Chippenham
Ely
Cambridgeshire
CB7 5QQ

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-07-31
Last made up to: 2024-10-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-02-06
Last: 2026-01-23

Officers (2 active · 4 resigned)

WRIGHT, Nicholas Richard Wale→
secretary · appointed 2018-02-06
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
WRIGHT, Nicholas Richard Wale→
director · ~65y · appointed 2002-01-23
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
WRIGHT, Angela Christine→
secretary · resigned 2018-02-06
Resigned
THORP, James Andrew→
director · ~49y · appointed 2015-02-27 · resigned 2018-10-04
Resigned
WRIGHT, Angela Christine→
director · ~91y · resigned 2020-07-11
Resigned
WRIGHT, Godfrey Richard Warde→
director · ~98y · resigned 2020-10-04
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
Legal charge1 property17/07/2008—
satisfied
Swiss Israel Trade
Swiss Israel Trade LTD
Mortgage1 property20/11/196913/06/2008
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Recent filings (119 total)

confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-01-23
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2026-01-23
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2026-01-23
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2026-01-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-07-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-01-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-07-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-01-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-07-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-02-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-06-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-24
change-account-reference-date-company-current-extended
accounts · AA01
2021-10-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-07-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-04-06