COTTISFORD FARMS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

03349620 · ltd · incorporated 1997-04-10

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 Jun 2025

Net worth

£5.88M

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

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

Investor take

Pursue

Asset-holding vehicle with a 90-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 90). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

9 officers (4 active, 9 linked, 5 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

10 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

83 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

80/100Exceptional

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 £5,879,647

Cash YoY

-2%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£2.1m

↓ 2.5% YoY

Net Worth

£5.9m

~ YoY

Current Assets

£3.4m

↓ 5.9% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-06-30	2024-06-30
Total assets	£5.92M	£5.90M
Current assets	£3.37M	£3.58M
Cash	£2.11M	£2.17M
Debtors	£1.08M	£1.20M
Net assets	£5.88M	£5.87M

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 officers

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 officers
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (30 events)Click to expand

2026-03-09
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2026-01-15
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2025-11-11
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2025-11-11
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officers · CH01
2024-11-14
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accounts · AA
2023-12-05
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accounts · AA
2022-12-26
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accounts · AA
2022-04-27
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2022-03-09
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2021-07-30
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2020-10-28
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2019-10-22
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accounts · AA
2019-04-25
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2018-10-10
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accounts · AA
2017-10-30
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2016-07-25
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BARBOUR, Deana Janette appointed
director
2016-07-03
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BROWNE, Robert Samuel resigned
director
2013-06-14
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BROWNE, Robert Thomas Alexander appointed
director
1997-05-01
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BROWNE, Janet appointed
secretary
1997-05-01
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BROWNE, Janet appointed
director
1997-05-01
➖
BINGLE, Timothy Mark resigned
secretary
1997-05-01
➕
BROWNE, Robert Samuel appointed
director
1997-05-01
➖
MILNE, Stephen Andrew Austen resigned
director
1997-04-16
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BINGLE, Timothy Mark appointed
secretary
1997-04-16
➖
WATERLOW SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
1997-04-16
➕
MILNE, Stephen Andrew Austen appointed
director
1997-04-16
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WATERLOW NOMINEES LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-director
1997-04-10
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Company incorporated
As COTTISFORD FARMS LIMITED
1997-04-10
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WATERLOW SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
1997-04-10
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WATERLOW NOMINEES LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

83/100

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

+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 29 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 90 — 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 90 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

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Robert Thomas Alexander Browne Individual · British · DOB 11/1970 · age 56	25–50%	50–75%	50-75% shares · 50-75% voting · trust interest	10/04/2017

1 historic (ceased) PSC

Mrs Janet Browneceased 12/07/2018· 50-75% shares · trust interest

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

Incorporated1997-04-10

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC01110 — Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds

Registered office

Round Hill Farm

Tusmore

Bicester

Oxfordshire

OX6 9SJ

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-03-31

Last made up to: 2025-06-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-04-24

Last: 2026-04-10

Officers (4 active · 5 resigned)

BROWNE, Janet→

secretary · appointed 1997-05-01

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Active

BARBOUR, Deana Janette→

director · ~65y · appointed 2016-07-25

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Active

BROWNE, Janet→

director · ~90y · appointed 1997-05-01

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

BROWNE, Robert Thomas Alexander→

director · ~56y · appointed 2013-06-14

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Active

BINGLE, Timothy Mark→

secretary · appointed 1997-04-16 · resigned 1997-05-01

Resigned

WATERLOW SECRETARIES LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1997-04-10 · resigned 1997-04-16

Resigned

BROWNE, Robert Samuel→

director · ~94y · appointed 1997-05-01 · resigned 2016-07-03

Resigned

MILNE, Stephen Andrew Austen→

director · ~64y · appointed 1997-04-16 · resigned 1997-05-01

Resigned

WATERLOW NOMINEES LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-director · appointed 1997-04-10 · resigned 1997-04-16

Resigned

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Recent filings (83 total)

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confirmation-statement · CS01

2026-04-10

change-person-director-company-with-change-date

officers · CH01

2026-03-09

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2026-01-15

change-person-director-company-with-change-date

officers · CH01

2025-11-11

change-person-director-company-with-change-date

officers · CH01

2025-11-11

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2025-04-11

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2024-11-14

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2024-04-10

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2023-12-05

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2023-05-23

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2022-12-26

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2022-04-27

change-to-a-person-with-significant-control

persons-with-significant-control · PSC04

2022-04-27

change-account-reference-date-company-current-extended

accounts · AA01

2022-03-09

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2021-07-30