ALBURY ESTATE FISHERIES (2008) LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
06507901 · ltd · incorporated 2008-02-19
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.
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
81/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 03120
Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 80-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 80). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: high (83/100)

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
75
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
7 officers (4 active, 7 linked, 5 with DOB)
84
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
27 connected companies via shared directors
90
Filing history
48 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
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 · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Average employees500500

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

2 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
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (26 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-01-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-05-09
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  3. 2024-10-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-10-13
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-12-12
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2021-10-04
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  7. 2021-10-04
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    termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM02
  8. 2021-09-30
    ➕
    WILSON, Roderick Charles St John appointed
    director
  9. 2021-09-30
    ➖
    ILDERTON, Lesley Ann resigned
    secretary
  10. 2021-08-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2021-06-28
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  12. 2021-06-17
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    INGLE, Clare appointed
    director
  13. 2021-02-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2019-12-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  15. 2019-01-02
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  16. 2018-01-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  17. 2017-06-07
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    termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM02
  18. 2017-05-31
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    BREARLEY, John Richard resigned
    secretary
  19. 2017-05-25
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    appoint-person-secretary-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP03
  20. 2017-05-19
    ➕
    ILDERTON, Lesley Ann appointed
    secretary
  21. 2008-06-26
    ➖
    BAXTER, Michael Charles George resigned
    director
  22. 2008-03-24
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    BAXTER, Michael Charles George appointed
    director
  23. 2008-02-19
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    Company incorporated
    As ALBURY ESTATE FISHERIES (2008) LIMITED
  24. 2008-02-19
    ➕
    EARL PERCY, The Hon George Dominic appointed
    director
  25. 2008-02-19
    ➕
    MELHUISH, Richard Edward Fitzharding appointed
    director
  26. 2008-02-19
    ➕
    BREARLEY, John Richard appointed
    secretary

Owner dependency

65/100
High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS
  • -4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 18 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 80 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

83/100
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 80 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 18 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 18 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

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Richard Melhuish
Individual · British · DOB 09/1946 · age 80
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/04/2016
The Honourable George Dominic Percy
Individual · British · DOB 05/1984 · age 42
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/04/2016

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

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7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2008-02-19
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC03120 — SIC 03120

Registered office

Estates Office, Alnwick Castle
Alnwick
Northumberland
NE66 1NQ

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-02
Last: 2026-02-16

Officers (4 active · 3 resigned)

EARL PERCY, The Hon George Dominic→
director · ~42y · appointed 2008-02-19
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
INGLE, Clare→
director · ~46y · appointed 2021-06-17
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MELHUISH, Richard Edward Fitzharding→
director · ~80y · appointed 2008-02-19
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
WILSON, Roderick Charles St John→
director · ~65y · appointed 2021-09-30
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BREARLEY, John Richard→
secretary · appointed 2008-02-19 · resigned 2017-05-31
Resigned
ILDERTON, Lesley Ann→
secretary · appointed 2017-05-19 · resigned 2021-09-30
Resigned
BAXTER, Michael Charles George→
director · ~65y · appointed 2008-03-24 · resigned 2008-06-26
Resigned

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Recent filings (48 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-01-23
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-05-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-02-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-10-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-02-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-10-13
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-02-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-12
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-04
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2021-10-04
termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2021-10-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-08-27
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2021-06-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-03-04