DAIRY UK LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

01971245 · private-limited-guarant-nsc · incorporated 1985-12-13

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 14.5y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Dec 2024

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Activities of business and employers membership organisations

Sector: Other service activities

Investor take

Pursue

Conservative operator with a 66-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 66). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (78/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 14.5y

75/100

ready

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

· Oldest live charge is 14.5 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 28/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.
· Profitable and stable/growing — lender coverage supportable.

Data confidence

Overall: high (84/100)

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

1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)

Directors & officers

100 officers (15 active, 100 linked, 93 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

16 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

360 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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Opportunity Score

83/100Exceptional

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 · FRS 102

Profitable

Profit before tax £172,482

Turned profitable

Returned to profit this year

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	2024-12-31	2023-12-31
Profit before tax	£172.5k	£-61.1k
Average employees	1400	1400

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

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

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (195 events)Click to expand

2025-11-19
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-11-14
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2025-11-14
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2025-11-06
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HEATH, Stuart Arthur appointed
director
2025-11-06
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EDWARDS, Lyndon Roger Charles resigned
director
2025-11-06
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2025-10-23
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memorandum-articles
incorporation · MA
2025-07-02
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2025-03-11
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2025-02-05
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CLOTHIER, Richard William appointed
director
2025-01-17
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2025-01-15
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2025-01-15
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2025-01-01
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DOUGLAS, Steven Michael appointed
director
2025-01-01
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HUTCHISON, Robert John appointed
director
2024-12-31
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ATHERTON, Thomas Alexander resigned
director
2024-06-07
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2024-01-17
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2024-01-17
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2024-01-04
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PADBERG, Sebastiaan Augustinus Johannes Maria appointed
director
2024-01-04
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DIXON, Jonathan resigned
director
2023-12-11
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2023-12-11
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2023-11-23
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DALE, Timothy Derwas appointed
director
2023-11-23
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CRAIG, Robert Keith resigned
director
2023-08-21
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-07-31
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2023-07-31
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2023-07-21
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AMIRAHMADI, Afshin resigned
director
2023-07-21
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DIXON, Jonathan appointed
director
2023-01-16
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2023-01-16
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2023-01-01
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KELLY, Colin appointed
director
2023-01-01
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HANLEY, Michael Gerard resigned
director
2022-10-19
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2021-02-01
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JONES, Alan Wyn appointed
director
2020-12-01
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BUCK, Colin Matthew appointed
secretary
2020-12-01
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HUNTER, Kirk John resigned
secretary
2020-07-01
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MULLER, Patrick Markus resigned
director
2020-06-01
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CHATTERS, Michael David John appointed
director
2020-06-01
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MEAUDRE, Hugues Bernard resigned
director
2019-11-06
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EDWARDS, Lyndon Roger Charles appointed
director
2019-11-06
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FEARNALL, Arthur Richard resigned
director
2019-07-31
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CRAIG, Robert Keith appointed
director
2018-10-01
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MEAUDRE, Hugues Bernard appointed
director
2018-10-01
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MULLER, Patrick Markus appointed
director
2018-09-28
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D'ARCY, Gabriel resigned
director
2018-09-28
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MCINNES, Andrew Ronald resigned
director
2018-06-30
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AMIRAHMADI, Afshin appointed
director
2018-02-08
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D'ARCY, Gabriel appointed
director

Showing most recent 50 of 195 events

Owner dependency

65/100

High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS

-14 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 17 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 66 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

63/100

Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 66. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 17 years.
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.)

Group structure

Arla Foods Limited holds 25-50% — a significant corporate investor but not a controlling parent.

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Arla Foods Limited

Corporate parent

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DAIRY UK LIMITED

This company · 01971245

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

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Arla Foods Limited Corporate entity	—	25–50%	25-50% voting	06/04/2016

1 historic (ceased) PSC

Muller Uk & Ireland Group Llpceased 01/07/2020· 25-50% voting

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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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

Typeprivate-limited-guarant-nsc

Incorporated1985-12-13

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC94110 — Activities of business and employers membership organisations

Registered office

210 High Holborn

London

WC1V 7EP

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-09-30

Last made up to: 2024-12-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-11-30

Last: 2025-11-16