CONWY VALLEY MEATS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
06147381 · ltd · incorporated 2007-03-08
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.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Processing and preserving of meat
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 69-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 69). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
7 officers (4 active, 7 linked, 5 with DOB)
84
Ownership & PSC
4 active PSC(s) of 4 total, 4 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
80/100Exceptional
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
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Average employees15001500

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
7
filings
  • • 5 persons-with-significant-control
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 address
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (26 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-03-10
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  2. 2026-03-10
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  3. 2026-03-10
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  4. 2026-03-10
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  5. 2026-03-10
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    withdrawal-of-a-person-with-significant-control-statement
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC09
  6. 2026-03-09
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  7. 2025-12-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2024-11-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2023-12-12
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2022-12-12
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2021-11-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2020-09-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2019-11-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2018-10-05
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  15. 2017-07-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  16. 2008-09-17
    ➖
    JONES, Dafydd Rhys resigned
    director
  17. 2007-03-08
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As CONWY VALLEY MEATS LIMITED
  18. 2007-03-08
    ➕
    WILLIAMS, Stephen Paul appointed
    secretary
  19. 2007-03-08
    ➕
    JONES, Grenville William appointed
    director
  20. 2007-03-08
    ➕
    WILLIAMS, Lynne Meriel appointed
    director
  21. 2007-03-08
    ➕
    WILLIAMS, Stephen Paul appointed
    director
  22. 2007-03-08
    ➕
    NORTH WEST REGISTRATION SERVICES (1994) LIMITED appointed
    corporate-secretary
  23. 2007-03-08
    ➖
    NORTH WEST REGISTRATION SERVICES (1994) LIMITED resigned
    corporate-secretary
  24. 2007-03-08
    ➕
    AVIS, Christine Susan appointed
    nominee-director
  25. 2007-03-08
    ➖
    AVIS, Christine Susan resigned
    nominee-director
  26. 2007-03-08
    ➕
    JONES, Dafydd Rhys appointed
    director

Owner dependency

83/100
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
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 19 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 69 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

73/100
Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 69. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 19 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 19 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

4 active beneficial owners · fragmented
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mrs Lynne Meriel Williams
Individual · British · DOB 03/1965 · age 61
25–50%
—25-50% shares29/09/2025
Mr Grenville William Jones
Individual · British · DOB 05/1957 · age 69
25–50%
—25-50% shares22/09/2025
Mr Dafydd Rhys Jones
Individual · British · DOB 06/1980 · age 46
25–50%
—25-50% shares22/09/2025
Mr Ashley Vaughan Williams
Individual · British · DOB 08/1995 · age 31
25–50%
—25-50% shares22/09/2025

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
Incorporated2007-03-08
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC10110 — Processing and preserving of meat

Registered office

Lladd Dy Cae Pys
Parry Road
Llanrwst
Conwy
LL26 0DG
Wales

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-22
Last: 2026-03-08

Officers (4 active · 3 resigned)

WILLIAMS, Stephen Paul→
secretary · appointed 2007-03-08
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
JONES, Grenville William→
director · ~69y · appointed 2007-03-08
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
WILLIAMS, Lynne Meriel→
director · ~61y · appointed 2007-03-08
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
WILLIAMS, Stephen Paul→
director · ~63y · appointed 2007-03-08
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
NORTH WEST REGISTRATION SERVICES (1994) LIMITED→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2007-03-08 · resigned 2007-03-08
Resigned
AVIS, Christine Susan→
nominee-director · ~62y · appointed 2007-03-08 · resigned 2007-03-08
Resigned
JONES, Dafydd Rhys→
director · ~46y · appointed 2007-03-08 · resigned 2008-09-17
Resigned

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Recent filings (58 total)

confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-12
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2026-03-10
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2026-03-10
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2026-03-10
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2026-03-10
withdrawal-of-a-person-with-significant-control-statement
persons-with-significant-control · PSC09
2026-03-10
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2026-03-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-11-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-12
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-12
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-09