APT HOLDINGS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

04909941 · ltd · incorporated 2003-09-24

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

approaching window · 12-months

Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.

· Oldest live charge 19.7y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Sept 2025

Net worth

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book net assets

Opportunity

82/100

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

Active trading company with a 83-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 83). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 2 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 19.7y

65/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 19.7 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: high (82/100)

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

3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)

Directors & officers

5 officers (4 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

15 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

74 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

82/100Exceptional

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

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

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Net Worth

—

Current Assets

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Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-09-30	2024-09-30
Average employees	2	200

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

filings

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand

2026-05-19
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2023-04-11
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2022-03-31
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2021-06-23
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2020-06-12
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2019-06-28
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2018-05-04
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2017-04-21
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2016-03-14
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2015-10-13
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2015-04-14
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2011-07-25
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Charge registered #3
Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
2011-07-21
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Charge registered #2
Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
2006-10-24
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Charge registered #1
Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
2005-09-10
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PHILPOT, Sasha Louise appointed
secretary
2003-09-24
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Company incorporated
As APT HOLDINGS LIMITED
2003-09-24
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PHILPOT, Andrew Peter Thomas appointed
secretary
2003-09-24
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PHILPOT, Andrew Peter Thomas appointed
director
2003-09-24
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PHILPOT, Peter John Harold appointed
director
2003-09-24
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SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
2003-09-24
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SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary

Owner dependency

91/100

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.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 23 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 83 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

96/100

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 83 years old. Natural succession window is now.
secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
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.)

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Andrew Peter Thomas Philpot Individual · British · DOB 04/1971 · age 55	75–100%	—	75-100% shares	06/04/2016

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

Incorporated2003-09-24

Jurisdictionengland-wales

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

Registered office

Glebe House School Lane

Stratford St. Mary

Colchester

Suffolk

CO7 6LZ

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-06-30

Last made up to: 2025-09-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-10-08

Last: 2025-09-24

Officers (4 active · 1 resigned)

PHILPOT, Andrew Peter Thomas→

secretary · appointed 2003-09-24

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Active

PHILPOT, Sasha Louise→

secretary · appointed 2005-09-10

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Active

PHILPOT, Andrew Peter Thomas→

director · ~55y · appointed 2003-09-24

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Active

PHILPOT, Peter John Harold→

director · ~83y · appointed 2003-09-24

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Active

SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2003-09-24 · resigned 2003-09-24

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:3 of 3 shown

		Type	Properties
outstanding	National Westminster Bank National Westminster Bank PLC	Legal charge	1 property	25/07/2011	—
outstanding	National Westminster Bank National Westminster Bank PLC	Debenture	1 property	21/07/2011	—
outstanding	National Westminster Bank National Westminster Bank PLC	Legal charge	1 property	24/10/2006	—

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