E.W.G.BRADDICK LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
00618018 · ltd · incorporated 1959-01-01
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.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
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 88-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 88). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (69/100)

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
11 officers (6 active, 11 linked, 8 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)
35
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
103 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
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
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Average employees600500

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

1 signal 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
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (30 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-23
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  2. 2024-12-02
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  3. 2023-10-03
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  4. 2022-08-26
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  5. 2021-09-21
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  6. 2020-09-28
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  7. 2020-02-18
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  8. 2019-05-30
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  9. 2019-04-15
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  10. 2019-04-15
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    officers · TM01
  11. 2019-04-15
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    officers · TM02
  12. 2019-02-19
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    SCHOFIELD, Deborah Mary appointed
    secretary
  13. 2019-02-19
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    SMALLEY, Sylvia Joan resigned
    secretary
  14. 2019-02-19
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    SMALLEY, Sylvia Joan resigned
    director
  15. 2018-06-29
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  16. 2017-12-20
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  17. 2017-12-20
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  18. 2017-12-20
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  19. 2017-10-01
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    GIBSON, Carolyn Trudy appointed
    director
  20. 2017-10-01
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    RICHARDSON, Martin William appointed
    director
  21. 2017-10-01
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    SCHOFIELD, Deborah Mary appointed
    director
  22. 2017-09-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  23. 2011-11-24
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    RICHARDSON, Hazel Mary appointed
    director
  24. 2011-11-24
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    SMALLEY, Sylvia Joan appointed
    director
  25. 2001-05-26
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    BRADDICK, Olive Mary resigned
    director
  26. 2001-05-09
    ➖
    BRADDICK, Olive Mary resigned
    secretary
  27. 2001-05-09
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    SMALLEY, Sylvia Joan appointed
    secretary
  28. 1991-11-14
    ➕
    BRADDICK, Ernest Humphrey Thomas appointed
    director
  29. 1991-11-12
    ➖
    BRADDICK, Ernest Walter George resigned
    director
  30. 1959-01-01
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As E.W.G.BRADDICK LIMITED

Owner dependency

88/100
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
  • -5 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
  • +Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "BRADDICK" — strong identity link between founder and business.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 35 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 88 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

90/100
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 88 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 35 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 67 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.)

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1959-01-01
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC01110 — Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds

Registered office

40 Kimbolton Road
Bedford
MK40 2NR

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-06-28
Last: 2026-06-14

Officers (6 active · 5 resigned)

SCHOFIELD, Deborah Mary→
secretary · appointed 2019-02-19
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BRADDICK, Ernest Humphrey Thomas→
director · ~88y · appointed 1991-11-14
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
GIBSON, Carolyn Trudy→
director · ~57y · appointed 2017-10-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
RICHARDSON, Hazel Mary→
director · ~83y · appointed 2011-11-24
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
RICHARDSON, Martin William→
director · ~50y · appointed 2017-10-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
SCHOFIELD, Deborah Mary→
director · ~59y · appointed 2017-10-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BRADDICK, Olive Mary→
secretary · resigned 2001-05-09
Resigned
SMALLEY, Sylvia Joan→
secretary · appointed 2001-05-09 · resigned 2019-02-19
Resigned
BRADDICK, Ernest Walter George→
director · ~115y · resigned 1991-11-12
Resigned
BRADDICK, Olive Mary→
director · ~114y · resigned 2001-05-26
Resigned
SMALLEY, Sylvia Joan→
director · ~82y · appointed 2011-11-24 · resigned 2019-02-19
Resigned

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Recent filings (103 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-06-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-23
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-07-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-02
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-06-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-10-03
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-06-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-08-26
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-06-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-09-21
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-06-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-09-28
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-06-24
change-account-reference-date-company-current-extended
accounts · AA01
2020-02-18
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-06-20