FILBERTS FINE FOODS LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
07027999 · ltd · incorporated 2009-09-23
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.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
- · Oldest live charge 5.9y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Dec 2024
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 10890
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 62-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 62). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).
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Refinance opportunity
1 live charge · oldest 5.9y
85/100
ready
Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.
- · Oldest live charge is 5.9 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
- · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.
Data confidence
Overall: high (80/100)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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
5 officers (2 active, 5 linked, 5 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
89 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
83/100Exceptional
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
100
Good data coverage for analysis.
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102| Metric | 2024-12-31 | 2023-12-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Cash | — | £924.7k |
| Net assets | — | £1.80M |
| Average employees | 3500 | — |
Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.
🔒Filing-note intelligence
4 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
1
filing
- • 1 capital
Last 180 days
1
filing
- • 1 capital
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (29 events)Click to expand
- 2026-04-08📄capital-name-of-class-of-sharescapital · SH08
- 2025-09-29📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2025-09-29📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2025-09-29📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2025-09-29📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2025-09-08📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-07-18📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-07-11📄memorandum-articlesincorporation · MA
- 2023-07-11📄resolutionresolution · RESOLUTIONS
- 2023-06-14📄capital-name-of-class-of-sharescapital · SH08
- 2023-06-12📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-09-29📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-04-20📄capital-alter-shares-redemption-statement-of-capitalcapital · SH02
- 2022-04-20📄capital-alter-shares-redemption-statement-of-capitalcapital · SH02
- 2021-12-14➖READ, Jane resigneddirector
- 2021-12-14📄termination-director-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM01
- 2021-09-29📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-08-18📄capital-cancellation-sharescapital · SH06
- 2020-12-23📄capital-cancellation-sharescapital · SH06
- 2020-09-03📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-06-17🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Hsbc UK Bank PLC
- 2020-01-31➖DOOLEY, Paul resigneddirector
- 2017-10-31➕OLIVER, Stephen appointeddirector
- 2015-08-31➖TALBOTT, Aimee resigneddirector
- 2015-01-01➕READ, Jane appointeddirector
- 2011-11-30➕TALBOTT, Aimee appointeddirector
- 2009-11-23➕DOOLEY, Paul appointeddirector
- 2009-09-23🏢Company incorporatedAs FILBERTS FINE FOODS LIMITED
- 2009-09-23➕TAYLOR, Mark appointeddirector
Owner dependency
76/100
High — earn-out structure requiredMaterial 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 17 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 62 — approaching natural succession window.
Succession & seller-readiness
69/100
Strong succession signalMultiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.
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.
- secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 17 years.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 17 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
1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mr Mark Taylor Individual · British · DOB 03/1964 · age 62 | 75–100% | 50–75% | board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control | 06/04/2016 |
1 historic (ceased) PSC
- Mr Paul Dooleyceased 31/01/2020· 25-50% voting
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
🔒Co-director network graph
Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.
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🔒Tailored diligence questions
6 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2009-09-23
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC10890 — SIC 10890
Registered office
First Floor Blackbrook Gate 1
Blackbrook Business Park
Taunton
Somerset
TA1 2PX
United Kingdom
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-10-07
Last: 2025-09-23
Officers (2 active · 3 resigned)
OLIVER, Stephen→
Activedirector · ~57y · appointed 2017-10-31
View their other companies + combined net worth →
TAYLOR, Mark→
Activedirector · ~62y · appointed 2009-09-23
View their other companies + combined net worth →
DOOLEY, Paul→
Resigneddirector · ~68y · appointed 2009-11-23 · resigned 2020-01-31
READ, Jane→
Resigneddirector · ~58y · appointed 2015-01-01 · resigned 2021-12-14
TALBOTT, Aimee→
Resigneddirector · ~44y · appointed 2011-11-30 · resigned 2015-08-31
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Mortgages & charges
1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | HSBC Hsbc UK Bank PLC | A registered charge | — | 17/06/2020 | — |
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Recent filings (89 total)
capital-name-of-class-of-shares
capital · SH08
2026-04-08
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-09-29
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-09-29
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-09-29
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2025-09-29
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-09-29
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-09-08
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-09-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-07-18
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-10-03
memorandum-articles
incorporation · MA
2023-07-11
resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2023-07-11
capital-name-of-class-of-shares
capital · SH08
2023-06-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-06-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-09-29