CHERRYTREE BAKERY LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

01821491 · ltd · incorporated 1984-06-04

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 37.5y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Jul 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

77/100

Strong

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What this business does

Primary activity: Manufacture of bread; manufacture of fresh pastry goods and cakes

Sector: Manufacturing

Investor take

Pursue

Conservative operator with a 74-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 77/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (73/100, director aged 74). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (78/100).

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Refinance opportunity

6 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 37.5y

70/100

ready

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

· Oldest live charge is 37.5 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
· Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

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

Lenders & charges

6 charges (6/6 with lender, 6/6 with type)

Directors & officers

13 officers (6 active, 13 linked, 11 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared

Director network

2 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

128 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

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Opportunity Score

77/100Strong

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.

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 · FRS 102

Profitable

Profit before tax £3,872,775

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-07-31	2024-07-31
Profit before tax	£3.87M	£3.94M
Average employees	209	18200

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

4 signals 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

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (48 events)Click to expand

2026-04-30
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2025-11-03
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officers · TM01
2025-10-31
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MEADOWCROFT, John resigned
director
2025-09-16
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-09-16
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-09-16
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-04-08
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2025-01-27
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change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2024-10-21
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-10-18
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-09-12
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-03-14
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-04-25
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-01-16
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officers · AP01
2023-01-14
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MEADOWCROFT, John appointed
director
2022-08-17
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2022-08-17
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2022-04-28
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2022-04-13
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mortgage · MR04
2022-04-13
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Charge satisfied #4
2021-04-28
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2019-11-25
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BEAUMONT, Mark Jeremy appointed
director
2019-11-25
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2019-08-31
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ENTWISTLE, Joshua John resigned
director
2019-07-19
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COLLEY, Helen Elizabeth appointed
director
2019-07-16
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MILBURN, Carole Ann appointed
director
2019-07-03
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Charge registered #6
Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
2019-01-10
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TURKINGTON, Maureen Mary Anne resigned
director
2016-11-29
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PAGE, Julie appointed
director
2016-11-29
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ENTWISTLE, Joshua John appointed
director
2008-06-07
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Charge satisfied #5
2008-06-07
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Charge satisfied #3
2005-05-11
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TURKINGTON, Maureen Mary Anne appointed
director
2005-04-30
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SPENCER, Ian resigned
director
2004-10-01
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TURKINGTON, John Francis resigned
director
1999-01-25
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SPENCER, Ian appointed
director
1997-08-22
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Charge registered #5
Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
1994-01-19
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Charge satisfied #2
1993-06-12
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Charge satisfied #1
1993-03-12
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TAYLOR, Eric resigned
director
1993-03-05
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ENTWISTLE, Gary James appointed
secretary
1993-03-05
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TAYLOR, Eric resigned
secretary
1993-03-05
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TURKINGTON, John Francis appointed
director
1993-03-05
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Charge registered #4
Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
1993-03-05
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Charge registered #3
Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
1988-11-14
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Charge registered #2
Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
1988-10-31
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
1984-06-04
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Company incorporated
As CHERRYTREE BAKERY LIMITED

Owner dependency

55/100

Moderate — manageable with handover

Some founder dependency, but not acute. A structured handover period should cover most risk.

FACTORS

-5 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 74 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

70/100

Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 74 years old. Natural succession window is now.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 42 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.

Red flags

1 med ·

Charge satisfaction-then-recreation pattern

medium

Multiple instances where a charge was satisfied and a new charge created within 6 months. Suggests active refinancing cycle.

Group structure

Fina Holdings Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Fina Holdings Limited

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares

ultimate parent

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CHERRYTREE BAKERY LIMITED

This company · 01821491

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Fina Holdings Limited Corporate entity	75–100%	75–100%	75-100% shares · 75-100% voting	04/08/2022

1 historic (ceased) PSC

Cherrytree Bakery Holdings Limitedceased 04/08/2022· 75-100% shares

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

🔒Co-director network graph

Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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BENTLEY'S YORKSHIRE BREWERIES (1828) LIMITED→ 08914145 · est 2014 · no financials extracted	—	—	—	—	12y	—	—
BERTWISTLES (BAKERS) LIMITED→ 00859279 · est 1965 · no financials extracted	—	—	—	—	60y	—	—
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C&G MEAT PRODUCTS LTD→ 11974093 · est 2019 · no financials extracted	—	—	—	—	6y	—	—
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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

Incorporated1984-06-04

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC10710 — Manufacture of bread; manufacture of fresh pastry goods and cakes

Registered office

Belshaw Court

Billington Road

Burnley

Lancashire

BB11 5UB

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-04-30

Last made up to: 2025-07-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-09-28

Last: 2025-09-14