ALLEN FARMS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

00660092 · ltd · incorporated 1960-05-23

Investment thesis

Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.

Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.

Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.

Opportunity decay

hardening · 12-months

Already tight — no obvious softening catalysts on the horizon.

· Thesis: well-run, low negotiation leverage

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

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year to Sept 2025

Net worth

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book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 01500

Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 73-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 73). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (76/100)

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

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

6 officers (3 active, 6 linked, 4 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared

Director network

Network not yet resolved

Filing history

96 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

80/100Exceptional

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

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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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-09-30	2024-09-30
Average employees	1	100

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 accounts
• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (21 events)Click to expand

2026-05-08
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2023-06-20
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2022-06-27
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2021-03-30
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2020-05-12
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2019-03-08
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2018-02-14
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2018-02-01
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2017-12-27
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2016-12-29
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2016-02-22
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2015-12-06
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1999-08-11
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HARRIS, Mary Lorna appointed
secretary
1999-08-11
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HARRIS, Timothy Charles appointed
director
1999-04-12
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ALLEN, Joan Marjorie resigned
secretary
1999-04-12
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ALLEN, Joan Marjorie resigned
director
1992-02-07
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ALLEN, Leslie Edwin resigned
director
1960-05-23
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Company incorporated
As ALLEN FARMS LIMITED

Owner dependency

91/100

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

+Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 27 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 73 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

96/100

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 73 years old. Natural succession window is now.
secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 27 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 66 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.)

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners · dominant holder ≥75%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mrs Mary Lorna Harris Individual · British · DOB 10/1956 · age 70	75–100%	—	75-100% shares · trust interest	06/04/2016
Mr Kevin Christopher Fisher Individual · British · DOB 04/1961 · age 65	75–100%	—	75-100% shares · trust interest	06/04/2016

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

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated1960-05-23

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC01500 — SIC 01500

Registered office

Chapel Farm

St Leonards

Tring

Herts

HP23 6NP

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-06-30

Last made up to: 2025-09-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-02-23

Last: 2026-02-09

Officers (3 active · 3 resigned)

HARRIS, Mary Lorna→

secretary · appointed 1999-08-11

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Active

HARRIS, Mary Lorna→

director · ~70y

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Active

HARRIS, Timothy Charles→

director · ~73y · appointed 1999-08-11

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Active

ALLEN, Joan Marjorie→

secretary · resigned 1999-04-12

Resigned

ALLEN, Joan Marjorie→

director · ~108y · resigned 1999-04-12

Resigned

ALLEN, Leslie Edwin→

director · ~125y · resigned 1992-02-07

Resigned

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