GOLDENFRY BRANDS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

03179944 · ltd · incorporated 1996-03-29

Investment thesis

Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.

Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.

Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.

Opportunity decay

hardening · 12-months

Already tight — no obvious softening catalysts on the horizon.

· Thesis: well-run, low negotiation leverage

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Dec 2024

Net worth

£6.97M

book net assets

Opportunity

81/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 10840

Sector: Manufacturing

Investor take

Pursue

Asset-holding vehicle with a 81-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 81). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

9 officers (5 active, 9 linked, 5 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

7 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

109 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

81/100Exceptional

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

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared

Positive net assets

Net assets £6,965,896

Cash YoY

+81%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£774k

↑ 81% YoY

Net Worth

£7.0m

↑ 20% YoY

Current Assets

£12m

↑ 44% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2024-12-31	2023-12-31
Total assets	£6.97M	£5.79M
Current assets	£12.27M	£8.51M
Cash	£773.6k	£428.1k
Debtors	£11.50M	£8.08M
Net assets	£6.97M	£5.79M

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

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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

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (32 events)Click to expand

2026-01-21
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accounts · AA
2025-04-09
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capital · SH10
2025-04-09
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capital · SH08
2025-04-09
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2025-04-09
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incorporation · MA
2025-04-09
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capital · SH08
2025-04-09
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capital · SH10
2025-04-09
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capital · SH02
2025-04-07
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capital · SH06
2025-04-03
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2025-04-03
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2024-12-23
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accounts · AA
2024-05-15
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address · AD01
2023-09-29
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accounts · AA
2023-09-19
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officers · AP01
2023-09-01
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TURRILL, Peter Anthony appointed
director
2022-12-30
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-12-23
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-12-23
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2018-05-09
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HERRIDGE, Michael Leslie resigned
director
2009-11-23
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HALL, Elizabeth appointed
director
2009-11-23
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HERRIDGE, John Paul appointed
director
2008-07-31
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BLACKBURN, Frank resigned
secretary
2008-07-01
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HERRIDGE, John Paul appointed
secretary
1996-04-04
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HERRIDGE, Paul Anthony appointed
director
1996-04-04
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BLACKBURN, Frank appointed
secretary
1996-04-04
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WATERLOW SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
1996-04-04
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HERRIDGE, Michael Leslie appointed
director
1996-04-04
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WATERLOW NOMINEES LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-director
1996-03-29
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Company incorporated
As GOLDENFRY BRANDS LIMITED
1996-03-29
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WATERLOW SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
1996-03-29
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WATERLOW NOMINEES LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

73/100

High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS

-4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 30 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 81 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

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 70+: Senior director is approximately 81 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 30 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
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

Thfic Ltd holds 25-50% — a significant corporate investor but not a controlling parent.

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Thfic Ltd

Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares

significant stake

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GOLDENFRY BRANDS LIMITED

This company · 03179944

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

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Paul Anthony Herridge Individual · British · DOB 12/1945 · age 81	50–75%	50–75%	50-75% shares · 50-75% voting	06/04/2016
Thfic Ltd Corporate entity	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	02/04/2025

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

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated1996-03-29

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC10840 — SIC 10840

Registered office

Goldenfry Foods Ltd

Sandbeck Way

Wetherby

LS22 7DW

England

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-09-30

Last made up to: 2024-12-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-04-16

Last: 2026-04-02