ALBA TREES LIMITED
📉Decliningactive
02188633 · ltd · incorporated 1987-11-04
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
drifting distress · 6-months
Drifting toward distress — expect more negotiability in 3–6 months, but also more friction.
- · Lifecycle stage drifting downward
- · Currently "declining"
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Aug 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
78/100
Strong
What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 02100
Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 65-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 78/100 (strong), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 65). 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 (85/100).
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Refinance opportunity
2 live charges · oldest 36.2y
65/100
clean up first
Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.
- · Oldest live charge is 36.2 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
- · Legal-friction score 38/100 — 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, 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
29 officers (2 active, 29 linked, 24 with DOB)
87
Ownership & PSC
0 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
203 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
🔒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.
See pricing →Opportunity Score
78/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional
Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.
Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
75
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
77
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.
Signals from accounts
Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102Profitable
Profit before tax £248,989
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 | 2025-08-31 | 2024-08-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Profit before tax | £249.0k | £478.7k |
| Average employees | 91 | 11300 |
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
1
filing
- • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
2
filings
- • 1 accounts
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (74 events)Click to expand
- 2026-03-20📄accounts-with-accounts-type-fullaccounts · AA
- 2025-10-09📄termination-director-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM01
- 2025-10-03➖TURNER, Craig Charles resigneddirector
- 2025-06-05📄termination-director-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM01
- 2025-05-30➖AVERY, Brett Michael resigneddirector
- 2025-02-28📄accounts-with-accounts-type-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-03-25📄accounts-with-accounts-type-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-01-25📄second-filing-of-confirmation-statement-with-made-up-dateconfirmation-statement · RP04CS01
- 2023-10-03📄termination-director-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM01
- 2023-10-03📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2023-10-02➕AVERY, Brett Michael appointeddirector
- 2023-10-02➖SILM, Jason Roland resigneddirector
- 2023-05-13📄capital-alter-shares-consolidationcapital · SH02
- 2023-05-13📄capital-name-of-class-of-sharescapital · SH08
- 2023-05-13📄capital-variation-of-rights-attached-to-sharescapital · SH10
- 2023-04-15📄resolutionresolution · RESOLUTIONS
- 2023-04-15📄memorandum-articlesincorporation · MA
- 2023-03-20📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2023-03-03➕TURNER, Craig Charles appointeddirector
- 2023-02-28📄resolutionresolution · RESOLUTIONS
- 2023-02-24📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control-statementpersons-with-significant-control · PSC08
- 2023-02-24📄cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC07
- 2023-02-24📄cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC07
- 2023-02-24📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2023-02-24📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2023-02-24📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2023-02-24📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2023-02-21➕APPLEBY, Robert Clive appointeddirector
- 2023-02-21➕RITCHIE, Thomas Charles appointeddirector
- 2023-02-21➖HENDRY, Stuart James Falconer resignedsecretary
- 2023-02-21➖ALEXANDER, Jonathan Scott resigneddirector
- 2023-02-21➖BARRY, David Jeremiah resigneddirector
- 2023-02-21➖BURGESS, Graeme Sean resigneddirector
- 2023-02-21➖COLCHESTER, James Edward resigneddirector
- 2023-02-21➖HYDE, Christopher Matthew resigneddirector
- 2023-02-21➕SILM, Jason Roland appointeddirector
- 2022-07-06➕BARRY, David Jeremiah appointeddirector
- 2022-07-06➕BURGESS, Graeme Sean appointeddirector
- 2020-03-02➖SHEARER, Rodney resigneddirector
- 2017-04-17➕ALEXANDER, Jonathan Scott appointeddirector
- 2017-04-17➕COLCHESTER, James Edward appointeddirector
- 2017-04-17➖WISEMAN, Andrew George resigneddirector
- 2017-04-11➖MACKISON, Duncan John resigneddirector
- 2016-02-23➖MURRAY, Grant Aidan resigneddirector
- 2015-06-26➖GLEN, John Ronald Kerr resigneddirector
- 2014-10-23➕MACKISON, Duncan John appointeddirector
- 2012-10-17➕MURRAY, Grant Aidan appointeddirector
- 2011-02-25➖SUTTON, Barry resigneddirector
- 2011-01-01➖HEPBURNE SCOTT, James Patrick resigneddirector
- 2010-07-01➕HENDRY, Stuart James Falconer appointedsecretary
Showing most recent 50 of 74 events
Owner dependency
73/100
High — earn-out structure requiredMaterial founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.
FACTORS
- +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 65 — succession pressure is live.
Succession & seller-readiness
66/100
Strong succession signalMultiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 65. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
- secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 38 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.
Red flags
1 med ·2 director resignations in last 12 months
mediumMultiple recent departures can indicate governance disagreement, succession event, or preparation for sale/stress.
Evidence: AVERY, Brett Michael resigned 2025-05-30; TURNER, Craig Charles resigned 2025-10-03
🔒Co-director network graph
Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
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Peers ranked by estimated value, then turnover, then opportunity score.See all →
🔒Tailored diligence questions
8 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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Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1987-11-04
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC02100 — SIC 02100
Registered office
4 Sloane Terrace
London
SW1X 9DQ
England
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2027-05-31
Last made up to: 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-12-16
Last: 2025-12-02
Officers (2 active · 27 resigned)
APPLEBY, Robert Clive→
Activedirector · ~65y · appointed 2023-02-21
View their other companies + combined net worth →
RITCHIE, Thomas Charles→
Activedirector · ~39y · appointed 2023-02-21
View their other companies + combined net worth →
DIMENT, Peter Charles Michael→
Resignedsecretary · resigned 1993-09-01
HENDRY, Stuart James Falconer→
Resignedsecretary · appointed 2010-07-01 · resigned 2023-02-21
ROONEY, June Kay→
Resignednominee-secretary · appointed 1993-09-01 · resigned 1997-10-01
BADGER HAKIM SECRETARIES LIMITED→
Resignedcorporate-secretary · appointed 1998-03-16 · resigned 2010-07-01
JOHNSON FRY SECRETARIES LTD→
Resignedcorporate-secretary · appointed 1997-10-01 · resigned 1998-03-16
ALEXANDER, Jonathan Scott→
Resigneddirector · ~52y · appointed 2017-04-17 · resigned 2023-02-21
AVERY, Brett Michael→
Resigneddirector · ~56y · appointed 2023-10-02 · resigned 2025-05-30
BALFOUR, Peter Edward Gerald→
Resigneddirector · ~105y · resigned 2000-05-19
BARRY, David Jeremiah→
Resigneddirector · ~74y · appointed 2022-07-06 · resigned 2023-02-21
BURGESS, Graeme Sean→
Resigneddirector · ~61y · appointed 2022-07-06 · resigned 2023-02-21
CHURCH, Peter James→
Resigneddirector · ~83y · resigned 2010-02-26
CLARKE, Michael Drummond→
Resigneddirector · ~78y · appointed 2005-11-17 · resigned 2008-11-08
COLCHESTER, James Edward→
Resigneddirector · ~55y · appointed 2017-04-17 · resigned 2023-02-21
GLEN, John Ronald Kerr→
Resigneddirector · ~67y · appointed 2009-02-26 · resigned 2015-06-26
HEGGIE, George Annan→
Resigneddirector · ~80y · resigned 2006-03-31
HEPBURNE SCOTT, James Patrick→
Resigneddirector · ~79y · appointed 1993-05-05 · resigned 2011-01-01
HYDE, Christopher Matthew→
Resigneddirector · ~73y · appointed 2010-02-26 · resigned 2023-02-21
LAMONT, Julian Callum→
Resigneddirector · ~62y · appointed 2006-04-01 · resigned 2010-02-26
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Mortgages & charges
2
Total charges
2
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Lloyds Banking Group The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland | Standard security | 1 property | 20/04/1990 | — | |
| outstanding | Lloyds Banking Group The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland | Debenture | 1 property | 30/01/1990 | — |
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Recent filings (203 total)
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2026-03-20
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-12-12
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2025-10-09
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2025-06-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2025-02-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2024-03-25
second-filing-of-confirmation-statement-with-made-up-date
confirmation-statement · RP04CS01
2024-01-25
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-12-06
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2023-10-03
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2023-10-03
capital-alter-shares-consolidation
capital · SH02
2023-05-13
capital-name-of-class-of-shares
capital · SH08
2023-05-13
capital-variation-of-rights-attached-to-shares
capital · SH10
2023-05-13
resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2023-04-15