COVERLEAF LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
03338783 · ltd · incorporated 1997-03-24
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
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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Opportunity
81/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds
Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 01500SIC 01500
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 78-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 78). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (76/100)

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

Company profile
address, 2 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
7 officers (5 active, 7 linked, 4 with DOB)
81
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
79 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
81/100Exceptional
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
85
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
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Average employees4400

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
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-16
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  2. 2024-12-11
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  3. 2023-09-04
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  4. 2022-12-17
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  5. 2022-04-01
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    officers · CH01
  6. 2021-12-22
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  7. 2021-01-06
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  8. 2019-12-20
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  9. 2019-06-03
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  10. 2018-12-20
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  11. 2017-12-21
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  12. 2016-09-08
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  13. 2016-05-30
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  14. 2015-07-27
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  15. 2015-06-01
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    annual-return · AR01
  16. 2014-03-28
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    BURROUGH, Amanda Jane appointed
    director
  17. 2012-12-19
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    BURROUGH, Robert Stanley appointed
    director
  18. 1997-04-26
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    WING, Clifford Donald resigned
    secretary
  19. 1997-03-26
    ➕
    PEGLER, Lynne Margaret appointed
    secretary
  20. 1997-03-26
    ➕
    PEGLER, Lynne Margaret appointed
    director
  21. 1997-03-26
    ➕
    PEGLER, Robert Frank appointed
    director
  22. 1997-03-26
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    BONUSWORTH LIMITED resigned
    corporate-director
  23. 1997-03-24
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    Company incorporated
    As COVERLEAF LIMITED
  24. 1997-03-24
    ➕
    WING, Clifford Donald appointed
    secretary
  25. 1997-03-24
    ➕
    BONUSWORTH LIMITED appointed
    corporate-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 29 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 78 — 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 78 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 29 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 29 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.)

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mrs Amanda Jane Burrough
Individual · English · DOB 12/1978 · age 48
——sig. influencesignificant influence15/03/2017

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
Incorporated1997-03-24
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC01110 — Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds

Registered office

Elm Farm
Foxham
Chippenham
SN15 4NQ
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-07
Last: 2026-03-24

Officers (5 active · 2 resigned)

PEGLER, Lynne Margaret→
secretary · appointed 1997-03-26
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Active
BURROUGH, Amanda Jane→
director · ~48y · appointed 2014-03-28
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Active
BURROUGH, Robert Stanley→
director · ~53y · appointed 2012-12-19
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
PEGLER, Lynne Margaret→
director · ~72y · appointed 1997-03-26
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
PEGLER, Robert Frank→
director · ~78y · appointed 1997-03-26
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
WING, Clifford Donald→
secretary · appointed 1997-03-24 · resigned 1997-04-26
Resigned
BONUSWORTH LIMITED→
corporate-director · appointed 1997-03-24 · resigned 1997-03-26
Resigned

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Recent filings (79 total)

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2025-12-16
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2025-04-23
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2024-12-11
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2024-04-26
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2023-09-04
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2023-04-06
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accounts · AA
2022-12-17
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-04-01
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-04-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-12-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-03-24
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2021-01-06
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2020-04-06
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2019-12-20