BENNINGTON'S POULTRY LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
03447278 · ltd · incorporated 1997-10-09
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.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 28.5y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Aug 2025
Net worth
£643.2k
book net assets
Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 01470
Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 64-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 64). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 3 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

3 live charges · oldest 28.5y

65/100
clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

  • · Oldest live charge is 28.5 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (79/100)

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
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)
90
Directors & officers
6 officers (3 active, 6 linked, 3 with DOB)
80
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
3 connected companies via shared directors
54
Filing history
86 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
83/100Exceptional
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
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £643,183
Cash YoY
+1238%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£52k
↑ 1238% YoY
Net Worth
£643k
~ YoY
Current Assets
£773k
↑ 7.5% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
£0£155k£309k£464k£619k£773kAug 2024Aug 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-08-312024-08-31
Total assets£989.4k£932.6k
Current assets£773.5k£719.4k
Cash£51.8k£3.9k
Debtors£484.1k£519.5k
Net assets£643.2k£642.9k

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
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (28 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-05-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-10-09
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  3. 2025-05-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2024-05-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2023-05-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2022-05-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2021-05-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2020-05-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2019-12-11
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    gazette-filings-brought-up-to-date
    gazette · DISS40
  10. 2019-12-10
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    gazette-notice-compulsory
    gazette · GAZ1
  11. 2019-02-12
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2018-05-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2017-05-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  14. 2017-03-28
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    address · AD01
  15. 2016-05-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  16. 2005-07-13
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    Charge registered #3
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  17. 2002-09-16
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  18. 2002-04-30
    ➖
    COX, Harold Alwyn resigned
    director
  19. 2001-04-29
    ➕
    WILCOX, Giles appointed
    director
  20. 1997-12-15
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  21. 1997-11-10
    ➕
    FIELDS, Paul appointed
    secretary
  22. 1997-11-10
    ➕
    FIELDS, Paul appointed
    director
  23. 1997-11-10
    ➖
    FNCS SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  24. 1997-11-10
    ➕
    COX, Harold Alwyn appointed
    director
  25. 1997-11-10
    ➖
    FNCS LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director
  26. 1997-10-09
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    Company incorporated
    As BENNINGTON'S POULTRY LIMITED
  27. 1997-10-09
    ➕
    FNCS SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  28. 1997-10-09
    ➕
    FNCS LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

76/100
High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 29 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 64 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

86/100
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 64. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • 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
Mr Paul Fields
Individual · British · DOB 12/1962 · age 64
50–75%
—50-75% shares06/04/2016
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Mr Giles Wilcoxceased 01/04/2025· 25-50% shares

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

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7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1997-10-09
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC01470 — SIC 01470

Registered office

Normanton Airfield Sewstern Lane
Long Bennington
Newark
Notts
NG23 5EX
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-05-31
Last made up to: 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-10-05
Last: 2025-09-21

Officers (3 active · 3 resigned)

FIELDS, Paul→
secretary · appointed 1997-11-10
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Active
FIELDS, Paul→
director · ~64y · appointed 1997-11-10
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Active
WILCOX, Giles→
director · ~52y · appointed 2001-04-29
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Active
FNCS SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1997-10-09 · resigned 1997-11-10
Resigned
COX, Harold Alwyn→
director · ~80y · appointed 1997-11-10 · resigned 2002-04-30
Resigned
FNCS LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 1997-10-09 · resigned 1997-11-10
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

3
Total charges
3
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:3 of 3 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
Legal charge1 property13/07/2005—
outstanding
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
Debenture1 property16/09/2002—
outstanding
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
Legal charge1 property15/12/1997—
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Recent filings (86 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-05-27
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2025-10-09
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-10-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-05-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-10-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-05-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-09-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-05-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-09-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-05-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-09-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-05-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-10-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-05-30
gazette-filings-brought-up-to-date
gazette · DISS40
2019-12-11