KEEN'S CHEDDAR LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
04652434 · ltd · incorporated 2003-01-30
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 4.0y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£1.75M
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 10512
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 82-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 82). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 4.0y

75/100
ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

  • · Charge age ~4.0 years — mid-life; refi window approaching.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (70/100)

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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
7 officers (5 active, 7 linked, 4 with DOB)
81
Ownership & PSC
No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)
35
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
84 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 · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £1,746,452

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£115k
Net Worth
£1.7m
Current Assets
—
Current Liabilities
—
£0£349k£699k£1.0m£1.4m£1.7mMar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Cash£114.8k—
Net assets£1.75M—
Average employees—700

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

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3 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
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (27 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-11-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2023-11-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2022-12-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-12-20
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    change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
    accounts · AA01
  6. 2022-07-15
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  7. 2022-07-06
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Trustees of Keen's Cheddar LTD Retirement Benefit Scheme
  8. 2022-01-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2021-12-15
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    change-account-reference-date-company-previous-extended
    accounts · AA01
  10. 2020-12-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2019-12-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2019-12-20
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  13. 2019-12-19
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  14. 2019-12-19
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  15. 2018-11-12
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  16. 2018-04-18
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    capital · SH08
  17. 2018-04-17
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    resolution
    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  18. 2003-03-18
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    KEEN, James George appointed
    director
  19. 2003-03-18
    ➕
    KEEN, Nicholas Stephen appointed
    director
  20. 2003-01-30
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As KEEN'S CHEDDAR LIMITED
  21. 2003-01-30
    ➕
    KEEN, George Henry appointed
    secretary
  22. 2003-01-30
    ➕
    KEEN, George Henry appointed
    director
  23. 2003-01-30
    ➕
    KEEN, Stephen Hugh appointed
    director
  24. 2003-01-30
    ➕
    WATERLOW SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  25. 2003-01-30
    ➖
    WATERLOW SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  26. 2003-01-30
    ➕
    WATERLOW NOMINEES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  27. 2003-01-30
    ➖
    WATERLOW NOMINEES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

88/100
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
  • -4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
  • +Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "KEEN" — strong identity link between founder and business.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 23 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 82 — 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 82 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 23 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 23 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.)
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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2003-01-30
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC10512 — SIC 10512

Registered office

Moorhayes Farm
Verrington Lane
Wincanton
Somerset
BA9 8JR
United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-02-13
Last: 2026-01-30

Officers (5 active · 2 resigned)

KEEN, George Henry→
secretary · appointed 2003-01-30
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Active
KEEN, George Henry→
director · ~77y · appointed 2003-01-30
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Active
KEEN, James George→
director · ~49y · appointed 2003-03-18
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Active
KEEN, Nicholas Stephen→
director · ~54y · appointed 2003-03-18
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Active
KEEN, Stephen Hugh→
director · ~82y · appointed 2003-01-30
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Active
WATERLOW SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2003-01-30 · resigned 2003-01-30
Resigned
WATERLOW NOMINEES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2003-01-30 · resigned 2003-01-30
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Trustees of Keen's Cheddar Retirement Benefit Scheme
Trustees of Keen's Cheddar LTD Retirement Benefit Scheme
A registered charge1 property06/07/2022—
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Recent filings (84 total)

confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-02-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-23
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-01-31
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-11-18
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-02-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-11-27
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-02-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-22
change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
accounts · AA01
2022-12-20
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2022-07-15
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-02-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-01-17
change-account-reference-date-company-previous-extended
accounts · AA01
2021-12-15
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-02-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-12-23