ABERGAVENNY AGRICULTURAL SUPPLIES LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
01226597 · ltd · incorporated 1975-09-16
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 35.7y old — refinance window within 12 months
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Turnover
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year to Sept 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 46610
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 79-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (93/100, director aged 79). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · oldest 35.7y

85/100
ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

  • · Oldest live charge is 35.7 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (83/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

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
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
7 officers (3 active, 7 linked, 5 with DOB)
84
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
15 connected companies via shared directors
90
Filing history
106 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.

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 employees00

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (27 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-08
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-01-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  3. 2023-11-06
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-06-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-06-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  6. 2021-07-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  7. 2020-10-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  8. 2019-06-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  9. 2018-07-05
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  10. 2017-07-07
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  11. 2016-07-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  12. 2016-01-13
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    annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
    annual-return · AR01
  13. 2015-06-10
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  14. 2015-01-16
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    annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
    annual-return · AR01
  15. 2014-06-06
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    mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
    mortgage · MR04
  16. 2014-06-06
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    Charge satisfied #2
  17. 2014-06-06
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    Charge satisfied #1
  18. 1995-04-03
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    PIKE, Tessa Louise appointed
    secretary
  19. 1995-04-03
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    GODFREY, William Angus appointed
    director
  20. 1995-04-03
    ➕
    PIKE, Tessa Louise appointed
    director
  21. 1995-04-03
    ➖
    COLDRICK, Raymond Henry resigned
    secretary
  22. 1995-04-03
    ➖
    COLDRICK, Jeffrey John resigned
    director
  23. 1995-04-03
    ➖
    COLDRICK, Malcolm Clive resigned
    director
  24. 1995-04-03
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    COLDRICK, Raymond Henry resigned
    director
  25. 1991-06-14
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  26. 1990-09-21
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  27. 1975-09-16
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    Company incorporated
    As ABERGAVENNY AGRICULTURAL SUPPLIES LIMITED

Owner dependency

83/100
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 31 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 79 — succession pressure is live.

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 79 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 31 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 51 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

1 active beneficial owner
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr William Angus Godfrey
Individual · British · DOB 10/1947 · age 79
——sig. influencesignificant influence06/04/2016

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.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1975-09-16
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC46610 — SIC 46610

Registered office

Robert Price (Bm) Ltd
Park Road
Abergavenny
Gwent
NP7 5PF

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-06-30
Last made up to: 2025-09-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-01-14
Last: 2025-12-31

Officers (3 active · 4 resigned)

PIKE, Tessa Louise→
secretary · appointed 1995-04-03
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
GODFREY, William Angus→
director · ~79y · appointed 1995-04-03
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
PIKE, Tessa Louise→
director · ~76y · appointed 1995-04-03
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Active
COLDRICK, Raymond Henry→
secretary · resigned 1995-04-03
Resigned
COLDRICK, Jeffrey John→
director · ~67y · resigned 1995-04-03
Resigned
COLDRICK, Malcolm Clive→
director · ~69y · resigned 1995-04-03
Resigned
COLDRICK, Raymond Henry→
director · ~92y · resigned 1995-04-03
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
0
Outstanding
0
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
satisfied
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
Legal charge1 property14/06/199106/06/2014
satisfied
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
Debenture1 property21/09/199006/06/2014

Recent filings (106 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-01-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2025-12-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2025-01-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-01-02
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-01-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2023-11-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2023-06-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-01-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2022-06-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-01-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2021-07-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-01-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2020-10-01
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-01-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2019-06-19