CHUNK OF DEVON LIMITED
💤Zombieactive
05847925 · ltd · incorporated 2006-06-15
Investment thesis
Zombie company — trading but stalled; unlikely mover.
Why interesting: Quiet, steady; could be a succession or carve-out candidate with the right conversation.
Why risky: No growth signal; thin margin for error on price.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Sept 2024
Net worth
£695.7k
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Manufacture of bread; manufacture of fresh pastry goods and cakes
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 64-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 64). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).
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Refinance opportunity
2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 18.2y
30/100
under pressure
Refinance would be pressure-driven, not opportunity-driven. Expect tighter margins and covenant scrutiny.
- · Oldest live charge is 18.2 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
- · Distress signals active — lender appetite narrows.
Data confidence
Overall: medium (77/100)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
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
2 officers (2 active, 2 linked, 1 with DOB)
80
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
58 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 declaredPositive net assets
Net assets £695,671
Cash YoY
-16%
Year on year
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
£255k
↓ 16% YoY
Net Worth
£696k
↑ 15% YoY
Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown| Metric | 2024-09-30 | 2023-09-30 |
|---|---|---|
| Cash | £254.6k | £302.6k |
| Net assets | £695.7k | £604.3k |
Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.
🔒Filing-note intelligence
3 signals detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
0
filings
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand
- 2025-07-30📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2025-07-30📄change-person-secretary-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH03
- 2025-07-30📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2025-07-30📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2025-07-24📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-06-06📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-11-23📄second-filing-of-confirmation-statement-with-made-up-dateconfirmation-statement · RP04CS01
- 2023-11-23📄second-filing-of-confirmation-statement-with-made-up-dateconfirmation-statement · RP04CS01
- 2023-06-07📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-09-22📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-06-22📄change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortenedaccounts · AA01
- 2022-04-09📄capital-name-of-class-of-sharescapital · SH08
- 2021-09-23📄change-person-secretary-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH03
- 2021-09-23📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2021-06-29📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-09-29📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2019-09-27📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2019-06-27📄change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortenedaccounts · AA01
- 2012-05-10🔒Charge registered #2Lender: Lloyds Tsb Commercial Finance Limited
- 2008-04-05🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC
- 2006-06-15🏢Company incorporatedAs CHUNK OF DEVON LIMITED
- 2006-06-15➕BRYON-EDMOND, Suzanne appointedsecretary
- 2006-06-15➕BRYON-EDMOND, Simon Antony appointeddirector
Owner dependency
98/100
Critical — business is the founderThe business appears inseparable from the founder. Acquisition without a serious earn-out or meaningful transition period would likely destroy value.
FACTORS
- +Sole director: Only one active director — all governance concentrated on one person.
- +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 20 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 64 — approaching natural succession window.
- +No director turnover: Company is 20 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.
Succession & seller-readiness
88/100
Likely off-market candidateStrong 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.
- primarySole active director: Only one director in control. No visible successor — buyers solve the succession problem.
- secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 20 years.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 20 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
cleanNo red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)
Shareholders & ownership
2 active beneficial owners| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mr Simon Antony Bryon-Edmond Individual · British · DOB 01/1962 · age 64 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 06/04/2016 |
Suzanne Bryon-Edmond Individual · British · DOB 04/1962 · age 64 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 06/04/2016 |
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
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Peers ranked by estimated value, then turnover, then opportunity score.See all →
🔒Tailored diligence questions
7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →🔒Advanced scoring suite
Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2006-06-15
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC10710 — Manufacture of bread; manufacture of fresh pastry goods and cakes
Registered office
Units 4-5 Alansway
Finnimore Ind Est
Ottery St Mary
Devon
EX11 1NR
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-06-28
Last made up to: 2024-09-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-06-29
Last: 2025-06-15
Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)
BRYON-EDMOND, Suzanne→
Activesecretary · appointed 2006-06-15
View their other companies + combined net worth →
BRYON-EDMOND, Simon Antony→
Activedirector · ~64y · appointed 2006-06-15
View their other companies + combined net worth →
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Mortgages & charges
2
Total charges
2
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Lloyds Banking Group Lloyds Tsb Commercial Finance Limited | All assets debenture | 1 property | 10/05/2012 | — | |
| outstanding | Lloyds Banking Group Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC | Debenture | 1 property | 05/04/2008 | — |
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Recent filings (58 total)
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-07-30
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-07-30
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2025-07-30
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-07-30
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-07-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-07-24
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-07-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-06-06
second-filing-of-confirmation-statement-with-made-up-date
confirmation-statement · RP04CS01
2023-11-23
second-filing-of-confirmation-statement-with-made-up-date
confirmation-statement · RP04CS01
2023-11-23
confirmation-statement
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-06-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-06-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-09-22
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-07-14
change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
accounts · AA01
2022-06-22