ENGELMANN FARMS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
00704229 · ltd · incorporated 1961-09-27
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.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 36.0y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Sept 2025
Net worth
£54.8k
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 83-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 83). 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 (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 36.0y

65/100
clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

  • · Oldest live charge is 36.0 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (73/100)

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
1 year of iXBRL accounts extracted (no YoY comparison) + narrative notes parsed
50
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
8 officers (5 active, 8 linked, 6 with DOB)
85
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
104 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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £54,828

Key financials

1 year extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£226k
Net Worth
£55k
Current Assets
£256k
Current Liabilities
—

Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-09-30
Total assets£357.9k
Current assets£255.6k
Cash£226.1k
Debtors£9.7k
Net assets£54.8k

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
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filings
Last 90 days
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filings
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-04-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
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  2. 2025-01-13
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    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-04-09
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  4. 2023-03-27
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  5. 2023-01-12
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  6. 2022-04-29
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  7. 2021-03-04
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  8. 2020-12-23
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  9. 2020-12-23
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  10. 2020-12-08
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    ENGELMANN, Claire Fiona appointed
    director
  11. 2020-12-08
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    ENGELMANN, Suzannah Louise appointed
    director
  12. 2020-04-06
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  13. 2020-03-23
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  14. 2020-03-23
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  15. 2020-03-23
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  16. 2020-03-23
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  17. 2019-03-15
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  18. 2018-03-29
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  19. 2017-05-12
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    ENGELMANN, Paul Russell resigned
    director
  20. 2008-04-01
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    ENGELMANN, William Gustav Robert appointed
    director
  21. 1992-07-31
    ➖
    ENGELMANN, Mary Lyndale resigned
    secretary
  22. 1992-07-31
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    ENGELMANN, Mary Lyndale resigned
    director
  23. 1990-07-23
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  24. 1961-09-27
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    Company incorporated
    As ENGELMANN FARMS 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
  • -4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
  • +Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "ENGELMANN" — strong identity link between founder and business.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 18 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 83 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

83/100
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 83 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 18 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 65 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

4 active beneficial owners · fragmented
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Miss Suzannah Louise Engelmann
Individual · British · DOB 02/1978 · age 48
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/05/2019
Miss Claire Fiona Engelmann
Individual · British · DOB 05/1972 · age 54
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/05/2019
Mr William Gustav Robert Engelmann
Individual · British · DOB 02/1979 · age 47
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/04/2016
Mrs Cynthia Mary Engelmann
Individual · British · DOB 03/1943 · age 83
——sig. influencesignificant influence06/04/2016
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Mr Paul Russell Engelmannceased 12/05/2017· 25-50% shares

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
Incorporated1961-09-27
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC01110 — Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds

Registered office

Shire Hill Farm
Radwinter Road
Saffron Walden
Essex
CB10 2JZ

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-06-30
Last made up to: 2025-09-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-05
Last: 2026-03-22

Officers (5 active · 3 resigned)

ENGELMANN, Cynthia Mary→
secretary
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Active
ENGELMANN, Claire Fiona→
director · ~54y · appointed 2020-12-08
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Active
ENGELMANN, Cynthia Mary→
director · ~83y
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Active
ENGELMANN, Suzannah Louise→
director · ~48y · appointed 2020-12-08
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Active
ENGELMANN, William Gustav Robert→
director · ~47y · appointed 2008-04-01
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Active
ENGELMANN, Mary Lyndale→
secretary · resigned 1992-07-31
Resigned
ENGELMANN, Mary Lyndale→
director · ~118y · resigned 1992-07-31
Resigned
ENGELMANN, Paul Russell→
director · ~88y · resigned 2017-05-12
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
Legal charge1 property23/07/1990—
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Recent filings (104 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2026-04-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2025-01-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2024-04-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-27
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-03-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2023-01-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2022-04-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-03-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2021-03-04
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2020-12-23
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2020-12-23