ADVANCE FOOD LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
05481618 · ltd · incorporated 2005-06-15
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
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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Opportunity
81/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Manufacture of prepared meals and dishes
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 62-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 62). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (78/100)

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)
78
Ownership & PSC
3 active PSC(s) of 4 total, 4 with control declared
90
Director network
3 connected companies via shared directors
54
Filing history
65 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
81/100Exceptional
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
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Average employees200200

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-11
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  2. 2025-03-13
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  5. 2025-03-13
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    officers · CH01
  8. 2025-03-13
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  9. 2024-12-23
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  10. 2023-12-21
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  11. 2023-03-09
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  12. 2022-04-27
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  13. 2021-04-30
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  14. 2019-11-01
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  15. 2019-03-19
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  16. 2018-12-19
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  17. 2018-04-17
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  18. 2005-06-15
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    Company incorporated
    As ADVANCE FOOD LIMITED
  19. 2005-06-15
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    YU, Chung Fook Wyler appointed
    secretary
  20. 2005-06-15
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    YU, Chung Fook Wyler appointed
    director
  21. 2005-06-15
    ➕
    YU, Chung Kwai appointed
    director
  22. 2005-06-15
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    WATERLOW SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  23. 2005-06-15
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    WATERLOW SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  24. 2005-06-15
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    WATERLOW NOMINEES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  25. 2005-06-15
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    WATERLOW NOMINEES LIMITED resigned
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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 21 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 62 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

76/100
Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS
  • secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 62. Early succession window.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 21 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 21 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

Superior Food Products (Uk) Ltd holds 25-50% — a significant corporate investor but not a controlling parent.

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Superior Food Products (Uk) Ltd
Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares
significant stake
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ADVANCE FOOD LIMITED
This company · 05481618

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

Shareholders & ownership

3 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Superior Food Products (Uk) Ltd
Corporate entity
25–50%
—25-50% shares21/03/2018
Ms Oi Lin Yu
Individual · British · DOB 03/1975 · age 51
25–50%
—25-50% shares15/06/2017
Ms Kwai Fun Yu
Individual · British · DOB 04/1968 · age 58
25–50%
—25-50% shares15/06/2017
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Mrs Sui Kwan Cheungceased 21/03/2018· 25-50% shares

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
Incorporated2005-06-15
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC10850 — Manufacture of prepared meals and dishes

Registered office

114 Hamlet Court Road
Westcliff-On-Sea
Essex
SS0 7LP

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-30
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-30
Last: 2026-04-16

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

YU, Chung Fook Wyler→
secretary · appointed 2005-06-15
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
YU, Chung Fook Wyler→
director · ~62y · appointed 2005-06-15
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Active
YU, Chung Kwai→
director · ~61y · appointed 2005-06-15
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
WATERLOW SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2005-06-15 · resigned 2005-06-15
Resigned
WATERLOW NOMINEES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2005-06-15 · resigned 2005-06-15
Resigned

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Recent filings (65 total)

confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-16
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accounts · AA
2025-12-11
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-17
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-03-13
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2025-03-13
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-03-13
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-03-13
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-03-13
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-03-13
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-03-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-04-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-03-09