BURDEN BROS CONTRACTORS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

02912894 · ltd · incorporated 1994-03-25

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.

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Mar 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

82/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Support activities for crop production

Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 79-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 67/100. Strong seller-intent signal (73/100, director aged 79). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Consolidate lender relationships. 3 distinct lenders creates friction — refinance into single-lender structure for cleaner diligence. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

3 live charges · 3 lenders · oldest 31.7y

35/100

too messy

Refinance path is blocked by complexity. Rethink structure or expect bespoke, expensive terms.

· Oldest live charge is 31.7 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· 3 lenders named — inter-creditor friction likely.
· Legal-friction score 35/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (74/100)

Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.

Company profile

address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

1 year of iXBRL accounts extracted (no YoY comparison) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)

Directors & officers

13 officers (6 active, 13 linked, 10 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

8 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

137 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.

Key financials

1 year extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

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Net Worth

—

Current Assets

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Current Liabilities

—

Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-03-31
Average employees	11

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (43 events)Click to expand

2025-12-18
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2025-01-09
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2024-11-18
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accounts · AA
2023-12-14
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accounts · AA
2023-04-27
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2023-03-29
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accounts · AA
2021-12-29
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accounts · AA
2021-09-02
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address · AD01
2021-09-02
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officers · CH01
2021-09-02
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officers · CH01
2021-09-02
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officers · CH01
2021-09-02
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officers · CH03
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officers · CH01
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officers · CH01
2020-12-21
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accounts · AA
2020-05-11
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accounts · AA
2020-03-06
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accounts · AA01
2019-12-10
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2017-07-11
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Charge satisfied #3
2017-02-01
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PENDRY, Andrew David resigned
director
2015-01-19
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BURDEN, Peter Elliott resigned
director
2014-04-28
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Charge registered #3
Lender: United Trust Bank LTD
2011-06-21
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GALE, David John resigned
director
2008-09-01
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BURDEN, Dale Edwin appointed
secretary
2008-09-01
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BURDEN, Mavis Elizabeth resigned
secretary
2008-08-21
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GALE, David John appointed
director
2008-08-21
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PENDRY, Andrew David appointed
director
1998-06-18
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BURDEN, Alexander Paul appointed
director
1995-10-13
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Charge satisfied #1
1995-08-31
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Charge registered #2
Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
1994-09-30
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Midland Bank PLC
1994-03-25
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Company incorporated
As BURDEN BROS CONTRACTORS LIMITED
1994-03-25
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BURDEN, Dale Edwin appointed
director
1994-03-25
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BURDEN, Guy Peter appointed
director
1994-03-25
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BURDEN, John Wallace appointed
director
1994-03-25
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BURDEN, Mavis Elizabeth appointed
director
1994-03-25
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GRAEME, Dorothy May appointed
nominee-secretary
1994-03-25
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GRAEME, Dorothy May resigned
nominee-secretary
1994-03-25
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BURDEN, Mavis Elizabeth appointed
director
1994-03-25
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BURDEN, Mavis Elizabeth resigned
director
1994-03-25
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BURDEN, Peter Elliott appointed
director
1994-03-25
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GRAEME, Lesley Joyce appointed
nominee-director
1994-03-25
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GRAEME, Lesley Joyce resigned
nominee-director

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 "BURDEN" — strong identity link between founder and business.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 32 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 79 — 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 79 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 32 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
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

Burden Bros Holdings Ltd is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Burden Bros Holdings Ltd

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control

ultimate parent

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BURDEN BROS CONTRACTORS LIMITED

This company · 02912894

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
Burden Bros Holdings Ltd Corporate entity	75–100%	75–100%	board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control	06/04/2016

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

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

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated1994-03-25

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC01610 — Support activities for crop production

Registered office

Countrywide House

23 West Bar

Banbury

Oxfordshire

OX16 9SA

United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-29

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-03-19

Last: 2026-03-05