AGRIQUIP LIMITED

💤Zombieactive
02883360 · ltd · incorporated 1993-12-22
Investment thesis
Zombie company — trading but stalled; unlikely mover.
Why interesting: Quiet, steady; could be a succession or carve-out candidate with the right conversation.
Why risky: No growth signal; thin margin for error on price.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Dec 2024
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
78/100
Strong
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What this business does
Primary activity: Activities of head offices
Sector: Professional, scientific & technical
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 68-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 78/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 68). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Broaden director team. Sole director creates succession risk and reduces buyer comfort. Appoint a second director or strong #2. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: high (81/100)

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
17 officers (1 active, 17 linked, 12 with DOB)
84
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
8 connected companies via shared directors
69
Filing history
122 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
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
70
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
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£0Dec 2023Dec 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-12-312023-12-31
Average employees100100

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (49 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-03
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-12-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
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  3. 2023-09-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
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  4. 2022-09-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-05-23
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  6. 2021-09-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  7. 2021-07-05
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  8. 2020-11-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2019-09-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2018-09-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2017-09-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  12. 2016-09-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  13. 2016-04-21
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    annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
    annual-return · AR01
  14. 2015-09-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  15. 2015-09-16
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    certificate-change-of-name-company
    change-of-name · CERTNM
  16. 2014-08-15
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    DONE, Andrew Donald appointed
    director
  17. 2014-08-15
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    HEPWORTH, David Spicer resigned
    director
  18. 2014-08-15
    ➖
    SISSONS, Robert resigned
    director
  19. 2012-08-01
    ➕
    SISSONS, Robert appointed
    director
  20. 2012-06-30
    ➖
    OSBORNE, Hamish resigned
    secretary
  21. 2012-06-30
    ➖
    OSBORNE, Hamish resigned
    director
  22. 2010-02-01
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    KURK, Claire Debra Louise resigned
    director
  23. 2009-03-19
    ➕
    OSBORNE, Hamish appointed
    secretary
  24. 2009-02-13
    ➖
    JURIST LIMITED resigned
    corporate-secretary
  25. 2009-01-31
    ➖
    PALMER, Julian Philip resigned
    director
  26. 2008-09-01
    ➕
    KURK, Claire Debra Louise appointed
    director
  27. 2008-09-01
    ➕
    OSBORNE, Hamish appointed
    director
  28. 2008-07-11
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    PALMER, Julian Philip resigned
    secretary
  29. 2008-07-11
    ➕
    JURIST LIMITED appointed
    corporate-secretary
  30. 2008-07-11
    ➕
    PALMER, Julian Philip appointed
    director
  31. 2006-10-02
    ➖
    BUTTON, Michael James resigned
    director
  32. 2006-03-31
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    HEPWORTH, June Christine resigned
    secretary
  33. 2006-03-31
    ➕
    PALMER, Julian Philip appointed
    secretary
  34. 2006-03-31
    ➕
    BUTTON, Michael James appointed
    director
  35. 2006-03-31
    ➕
    HEPWORTH, David Spicer appointed
    director
  36. 2006-03-31
    ➖
    HEPWORTH, David Martin resigned
    director
  37. 2006-03-31
    ➖
    HEPWORTH, June Christine resigned
    director
  38. 1999-02-15
    ➖
    THOMAS, Edward Charles, The Executors Of Mr resigned
    director
  39. 1999-02-15
    ➖
    THOMAS, Yvonne Sandra resigned
    director
  40. 1994-03-09
    ➕
    HEPWORTH, June Christine appointed
    secretary
  41. 1994-03-09
    ➕
    HEPWORTH, David Martin appointed
    director
  42. 1994-03-09
    ➕
    HEPWORTH, June Christine appointed
    director
  43. 1994-03-09
    ➕
    THOMAS, Edward Charles, The Executors Of Mr appointed
    director
  44. 1994-03-09
    ➕
    THOMAS, Yvonne Sandra appointed
    director
  45. 1993-12-29
    ➖
    MIDLANDS SECRETARIAL MANAGEMENT LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  46. 1993-12-29
    ➖
    ALLSOPP, Nicholas James resigned
    nominee-director
  47. 1993-12-22
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As AGRIQUIP LIMITED
  48. 1993-12-22
    ➕
    MIDLANDS SECRETARIAL MANAGEMENT LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  49. 1993-12-22
    ➕
    ALLSOPP, Nicholas James appointed
    nominee-director

Owner dependency

90/100
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
  • +Sole director: Only one active director — all governance concentrated on one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 68 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

80/100
Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 68. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • primarySole active director: Only one director in control. No visible successor — buyers solve the succession problem.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 32 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.)

Group structure

Nest - Tec Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

🏛️
Nest - Tec Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control
ultimate parent
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AGRIQUIP LIMITED
This company · 02883360

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%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Nest - Tec Limited
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control06/04/2016

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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🔒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.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1993-12-22
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC70100 — Activities of head offices

Registered office

Site 1, Delves Road
Heanor Gate Industrial Estate
Heanor
DE75 7SJ
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-05-04
Last: 2026-04-20

Officers (1 active · 16 resigned)

DONE, Andrew Donald→
director · ~68y · appointed 2014-08-15
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HEPWORTH, June Christine→
secretary · appointed 1994-03-09 · resigned 2006-03-31
Resigned
OSBORNE, Hamish→
secretary · appointed 2009-03-19 · resigned 2012-06-30
Resigned
PALMER, Julian Philip→
secretary · appointed 2006-03-31 · resigned 2008-07-11
Resigned
JURIST LIMITED→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2008-07-11 · resigned 2009-02-13
Resigned
MIDLANDS SECRETARIAL MANAGEMENT LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1993-12-22 · resigned 1993-12-29
Resigned
ALLSOPP, Nicholas James→
nominee-director · ~68y · appointed 1993-12-22 · resigned 1993-12-29
Resigned
BUTTON, Michael James→
director · ~70y · appointed 2006-03-31 · resigned 2006-10-02
Resigned
HEPWORTH, David Spicer→
director · ~58y · appointed 2006-03-31 · resigned 2014-08-15
Resigned
HEPWORTH, David Martin→
director · ~82y · appointed 1994-03-09 · resigned 2006-03-31
Resigned
HEPWORTH, June Christine→
director · ~80y · appointed 1994-03-09 · resigned 2006-03-31
Resigned
KURK, Claire Debra Louise→
director · ~61y · appointed 2008-09-01 · resigned 2010-02-01
Resigned
OSBORNE, Hamish→
director · ~53y · appointed 2008-09-01 · resigned 2012-06-30
Resigned
PALMER, Julian Philip→
director · ~58y · appointed 2008-07-11 · resigned 2009-01-31
Resigned
SISSONS, Robert→
director · ~72y · appointed 2012-08-01 · resigned 2014-08-15
Resigned
THOMAS, Edward Charles, The Executors Of Mr→
director · ~82y · appointed 1994-03-09 · resigned 1999-02-15
Resigned
THOMAS, Yvonne Sandra→
director · ~65y · appointed 1994-03-09 · resigned 1999-02-15
Resigned

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Recent filings (122 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2025-12-03
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-29
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2024-12-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-09-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-05-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-09-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-05-24
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-05-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-09-30
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2021-07-05
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-04-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-11-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-05-04