DEWEY CONTRACTING LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
03463108 · ltd · incorporated 1997-11-10
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
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 28.7y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£1.59M
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 01500
Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 68-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 68). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 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 · 2 lenders · oldest 28.7y

50/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 28.7 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · 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
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 3 with DOB)
82
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
74 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
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
80
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 · FRS 105 (micro)
Positive net assets
Net assets £1,586,315

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
—
Net Worth
£1.6m
↑ 3.9% YoY
Current Assets
£396k
↑ 3.0% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
£0£317k£635k£952k£1.3m£1.6mMar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 105 (micro)
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Total assets£1.66M£1.54M
Current assets£395.7k£384.3k
Net assets£1.59M£1.53M

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
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Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (26 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
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  2. 2024-12-19
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  3. 2023-12-29
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  4. 2023-12-18
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    mortgage · MR01
  5. 2023-12-15
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    Charge registered #3
    Lender: Barclays Security Trustee Limited
  6. 2022-12-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  7. 2021-12-30
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    accounts · AA
  8. 2021-02-03
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  9. 2019-12-23
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  10. 2018-12-17
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    accounts · AA
  11. 2017-12-21
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    accounts · AA
  12. 2017-11-27
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  13. 2016-12-09
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    accounts · AA
  14. 2016-04-04
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    annual-return · AR01
  15. 2015-12-16
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    accounts · AA
  16. 2014-12-29
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    accounts · AA
  17. 2013-03-22
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  18. 1997-11-22
    ➕
    DEWEY, Sally Lillian appointed
    secretary
  19. 1997-11-22
    ➕
    DEWEY, Andrew Leslie appointed
    director
  20. 1997-11-22
    ➕
    DEWEY, Sally Lillian appointed
    director
  21. 1997-11-22
    ➖
    BATTENS SECRETARIAL SERVICES LTD resigned
    corporate-secretary
  22. 1997-11-22
    ➖
    QUANTOCK SHULDHAM, Melanie Anne resigned
    director
  23. 1997-11-22
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  24. 1997-11-10
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    Company incorporated
    As DEWEY CONTRACTING LIMITED
  25. 1997-11-10
    ➕
    BATTENS SECRETARIAL SERVICES LTD appointed
    corporate-secretary
  26. 1997-11-10
    ➕
    QUANTOCK SHULDHAM, Melanie Anne appointed
    director

Owner dependency

100/100
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
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "DEWEY" — strong identity link between founder and business.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 29 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 68 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

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 68. 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.)

Group structure

2 corporate shareholders identified. Group structure is distributed.

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L. Dewey & Company Ltd
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control
ultimate parent
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L. Dewey &Amp; Company Ltd
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control
ultimate parent
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DEWEY CONTRACTING LIMITED
This company · 03463108

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

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
L. Dewey & Company Ltd
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control06/04/2016
L. Dewey &Amp; Company Ltd
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control06/04/2016

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
Incorporated1997-11-10
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC01500 — SIC 01500

Registered office

Lambrook Farm
Queen Camel
Yeovil
Somerset
BA22 7NA

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-11-24
Last: 2025-11-10

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

DEWEY, Sally Lillian→
secretary · appointed 1997-11-22
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
DEWEY, Andrew Leslie→
director · ~68y · appointed 1997-11-22
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
DEWEY, Sally Lillian→
director · ~67y · appointed 1997-11-22
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BATTENS SECRETARIAL SERVICES LTD→
corporate-secretary · appointed 1997-11-10 · resigned 1997-11-22
Resigned
QUANTOCK SHULDHAM, Melanie Anne→
director · ~64y · appointed 1997-11-10 · resigned 1997-11-22
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 Security Trustee Limited
A registered charge1 property15/12/2023—
outstanding
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
Debenture1 property22/03/2013—
outstanding
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
Legal charge1 property22/11/1997—
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Recent filings (74 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-12-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-11-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-12-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-11-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-12-29
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2023-12-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-11-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-12-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-11-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-12-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-11-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-02-03
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-12-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2019-12-23
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-11-22