A.D.& K.M.CASTON LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
00843288 · ltd · incorporated 1965-03-29
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 36.9y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒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
What this business does
Primary activity: Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds
Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 78-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 78). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 2 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
3 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 36.9y
50/100
clean up first
Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.
- · Oldest live charge is 36.9 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
- · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.
Data confidence
Overall: medium (78/100)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
3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)
90
Directors & officers
6 officers (5 active, 6 linked, 5 with DOB)
87
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
130 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
75
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 accountsCash
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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 · FRS 102| Metric | 2025-03-31 | 2024-03-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Total assets | — | £1.88M |
| Current assets | — | £576.8k |
| Net assets | — | £1.87M |
| Average employees | 300 | — |
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.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
2
filings
- • 1 confirmation-statement
- • 1 officers
Last 180 days
3
filings
- • 1 confirmation-statement
- • 1 officers
- • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (29 events)Click to expand
- 2026-02-27📄termination-director-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM01
- 2025-12-31➖CASTON, Sally Anne resigneddirector
- 2025-12-22📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2025-01-02📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2024-12-20📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2024-01-03📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2024-01-03📄change-person-secretary-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH03
- 2024-01-03📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2024-01-03📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2024-01-03📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2024-01-03📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2024-01-02📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2024-01-02📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2023-12-22📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2023-07-18📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2023-07-18📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2023-01-03📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2023-01-03📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2022-12-21📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2022-01-05📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2022-01-04📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2018-11-16🔓Charge satisfied #2
- 2012-03-07➕BATCHELOR-WYLAM, Lucy Anne appointeddirector
- 2012-03-07➕CASTON, James Oliver appointeddirector
- 2004-10-15➕CASTON, Sally Anne appointeddirector
- 1995-03-31🔒Charge registered #3Lender: The Agricultural Mortgage Corporation PLC
- 1992-11-06🔒Charge registered #2Lender: The Agricultural Mortgage Corporation PLC
- 1989-06-30🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
- 1965-03-29🏢Company incorporatedAs A.D.& K.M.CASTON LIMITED
Owner dependency
78/100
High — earn-out structure requiredMaterial founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.
FACTORS
- -4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
- +Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "CASTON" — strong identity link between founder and business.
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 78 — 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 candidateStrong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 78 years old. Natural succession window is now.
- secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 14 years.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 61 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
cleanNo 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| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mr John Caston Individual · British · DOB 11/1948 · age 78 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 06/04/2016 |
James Oliver Caston Individual · British · DOB 04/1982 · age 44 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 06/04/2016 |
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
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7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1965-03-29
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC01110 — Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds
Registered office
The Wherry
Quay Street
Halesworth
Suffolk
IP19 8ET
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-01-14
Last: 2025-12-31
Officers (5 active · 1 resigned)
Active
BATCHELOR-WYLAM, Lucy Anne→
Activedirector · ~48y · appointed 2012-03-07
View their other companies + combined net worth →
CASTON, James Oliver→
Activedirector · ~44y · appointed 2012-03-07
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
Active
CASTON, Sally Anne→
Resigneddirector · ~76y · appointed 2004-10-15 · resigned 2025-12-31
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Mortgages & charges
3
Total charges
2
Outstanding
2
Active lenders
Status:Lender:3 of 3 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | The Agricultural Mortgage Corporation The Agricultural Mortgage Corporation PLC | Legal charge | 1 property | 31/03/1995 | — | |
| satisfied | The Agricultural Mortgage Corporation The Agricultural Mortgage Corporation PLC | Legal charge | 1 property | 06/11/1992 | 16/11/2018 | |
| outstanding | Barclays Barclays Bank PLC | Legal charge | 1 property | 30/06/1989 | — |
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Recent filings (130 total)
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-02
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2026-02-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-12-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-01-02
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-01-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-12-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-01-03
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-01-03
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2024-01-03
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2024-01-03
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-01-03
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-01-03
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-01-03
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-01-02
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-01-02