AUBERIES ESTATE FARMS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
00816177 · ltd · incorporated 1964-08-18
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 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: Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds
Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 63-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 63). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (64/100)

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
No charge records returned
50
Directors & officers
6 officers (3 active, 6 linked, 4 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
No PSC data returned
40
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
106 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
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£0Sept 2024Sept 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-09-302024-09-30
Average employees4600

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

3 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
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (22 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-05-14
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-06-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-04-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-06-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2023-05-24
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  6. 2023-04-05
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    BURKE, Nigel St George resigned
    director
  7. 2022-06-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2021-06-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2020-06-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2019-06-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2018-06-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2017-06-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  13. 2016-10-04
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    officers · AP01
  14. 2016-10-01
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    BURKE, Dominick Harry St George appointed
    director
  15. 2016-06-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  16. 2016-04-01
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  17. 2016-04-01
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  18. 1994-07-01
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    BURKE, Nicola Zoe appointed
    secretary
  19. 1994-07-01
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    BURKE, Nicola Zoe appointed
    director
  20. 1994-06-21
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    BURKE, Peter Walter resigned
    secretary
  21. 1994-06-21
    ➖
    BURKE, Peter Walter resigned
    director
  22. 1964-08-18
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    Company incorporated
    As AUBERIES ESTATE FARMS LIMITED

Owner dependency

84/100
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 32 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 63 — approaching natural succession window.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

86/100
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 63. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 32 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 62 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
Incorporated1964-08-18
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC01110 — Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds

Registered office

Auberies
Bulmer
Sudbury
Suffolk
CO10 7DY
United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-06-30
Last made up to: 2025-09-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-08-11
Last: 2025-07-28

Officers (3 active · 3 resigned)

BURKE, Nicola Zoe→
secretary · appointed 1994-07-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BURKE, Dominick Harry St George→
director · ~32y · appointed 2016-10-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BURKE, Nicola Zoe→
director · ~63y · appointed 1994-07-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BURKE, Peter Walter→
secretary · resigned 1994-06-21
Resigned
BURKE, Nigel St George→
director · ~77y · resigned 2023-04-05
Resigned
BURKE, Peter Walter→
director · ~109y · resigned 1994-06-21
Resigned

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Recent filings (106 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-05-14
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-07-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-06-17
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-08-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-04-04
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-08-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-06-19
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2023-05-24
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-07-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-06-29
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-07-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-06-23
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-07-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-06-23
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-08-07