A. POUCHER AND SONS (BARDNEY DAIRIES) LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

01370484 · ltd · incorporated 1978-05-25

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 24.0y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Mar 2025

Net worth

£500.7k

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

ALSO REGISTERED FOR

01290SIC 01290

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 75-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 75). 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

2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 24.0y

50/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 24.0 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: high (80/100)

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

Company profile

address, 2 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)

Directors & officers

10 officers (6 active, 10 linked, 8 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

4 active PSC(s) of 4 total, 4 with control declared

Director network

2 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

117 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

82/100Exceptional

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

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared

Positive net assets

Net assets £500,658

Very low cash

Cash position: £91

Net assets shrinking

Down £54,347 YoY

Cash YoY

+0%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£91

~ YoY

Net Worth

£501k

↓ 9.8% YoY

Current Assets

£1.0m

↑ 10% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Total assets	£1.15M	£871.7k
Current assets	£1.01M	£921.1k
Cash	£91	£91
Debtors	£341.6k	£365.9k
Net assets	£500.7k	£555.0k

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

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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

filings

• 2 miscellaneous
• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filings

• 2 miscellaneous
• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (33 events)Click to expand

2026-04-15
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legacy
miscellaneous · RP01PSC01
2026-03-28
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legacy
miscellaneous · RP01PSC01
2025-12-16
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accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2025-09-30
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-09-29
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-09-29
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2025-09-29
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-01-07
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2025-01-07
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-01-07
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notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2024-09-06
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accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2023-12-20
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accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2022-12-15
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accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2022-02-09
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-11-10
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capital · SH01
2021-04-22
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accounts · AA
2021-01-27
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officers · AP01
2021-01-27
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officers · AP01
2020-04-01
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BURCHNALL, Howard Peter appointed
director
2020-04-01
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POUCHER, Mark Andrew appointed
director
2020-03-13
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mortgage · MR01
2020-03-12
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Charge registered #2
Lender: Hsbc UK Bank PLC
2002-05-30
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Hsbc Bank PLC
2000-01-01
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BURCHNALL, Terence David resigned
director
1997-08-11
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BURCHNALL, Peter Stuart appointed
secretary
1997-08-10
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BURCHNALL, Marjorie Ann resigned
secretary
1997-08-10
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BURCHNALL, Marjorie Ann resigned
director
1997-01-01
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BURCHNALL, David Ian appointed
director
1997-01-01
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BURCHNALL, Peter Stuart appointed
director
1996-05-31
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POUCHER, Susan June resigned
director
1995-01-01
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BURCHNALL, Marjorie Ann appointed
director
1995-01-01
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POUCHER, Susan June appointed
director
1978-05-25
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Company incorporated
As A. POUCHER AND SONS (BARDNEY DAIRIES) 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

-5 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "POUCHER" — strong identity link between founder and business.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 29 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 75 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

90/100

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 75 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 29 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 48 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

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Mark Andrew Poucher Individual · British · DOB 08/1978 · age 48	—	—	sig. influencesignificant influence	01/04/2020
Mr David Ian Burchnall Individual · British · DOB 04/1958 · age 68	—	—	sig. influencesignificant influence	01/04/2020
Howard Peter Burchnall Individual · British · DOB 04/1987 · age 39	—	—	sig. influencesignificant influence	01/04/2020
Mr Peter Stuart Burchnall Individual · British · DOB 07/1959 · age 67	—	—	sig. influencesignificant influence	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

Incorporated1978-05-25

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC01110 — Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds

Registered office

Lodge Farm Bardney Dairies

Wragby Market Rasen

Lincolnshire

LN8 5JW

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-03-14

Last: 2026-02-28