C N WARKUP & SONS (PIGS) LIMITED

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07173398 · ltd · incorporated 2010-03-02
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
—
year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£3.65M
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 01460
Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing
Investor take
Pursue
Asset-holding vehicle with a 66-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 66). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
3 officers (3 active, 3 linked, 3 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 4 total, 4 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
38 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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £3,651,873
Cash YoY
+40%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£1.1m
↑ 40% YoY
Net Worth
£3.7m
↑ 22% YoY
Current Assets
£2.7m
↑ 31% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
£0£730k£1.5m£2.2m£2.9m£3.7mMar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Total assets£4.07M£3.51M
Current assets£2.70M£2.06M
Cash£1.13M£809.2k
Debtors£849.5k£654.0k
Net assets£3.65M£3.00M

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 persons-with-significant-control
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (19 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-03-03
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  2. 2025-12-21
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  3. 2024-12-18
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  4. 2023-12-21
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  5. 2022-12-20
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  6. 2022-07-07
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  7. 2022-07-06
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  8. 2022-07-06
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  9. 2022-07-06
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  10. 2022-07-06
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  11. 2021-12-21
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  12. 2021-01-28
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  13. 2019-12-20
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  14. 2018-12-21
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  15. 2017-12-21
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  16. 2010-03-02
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    Company incorporated
    As C N WARKUP & SONS (PIGS) LIMITED
  17. 2010-03-02
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    WARKUP, Graham Clifford appointed
    director
  18. 2010-03-02
    ➕
    WARKUP, Martin Geoffrey appointed
    director
  19. 2010-03-02
    ➕
    WARKUP, Neil Anthony appointed
    director

Owner dependency

98/100
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
  • +Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "WARKUP" — strong identity link between founder and business.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 16 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 66 — 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 66. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 16 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 16 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

Warkup Holdings Ltd is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Warkup Holdings Ltd
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control
ultimate parent
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C N WARKUP & SONS (PIGS) LIMITED
This company · 07173398

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

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Warkup Holdings Ltd
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control07/09/2021
3 historic (ceased) PSCs
  • Mr Graham Clifford Warkupceased 07/09/2021· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting
  • Mr Martin Geoffrey Warkupceased 07/09/2021· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting
  • Mr Neil Anthony Warkupceased 07/09/2021· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting

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
Incorporated2010-03-02
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC01460 — SIC 01460

Registered office

Cliff Farm, Southfield Lane
Barmston
Driffield
East Yorkshire
YO25 8PG

Filing status

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

Officers (3 active · 0 resigned)

WARKUP, Graham Clifford→
director · ~66y · appointed 2010-03-02
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
WARKUP, Martin Geoffrey→
director · ~63y · appointed 2010-03-02
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
WARKUP, Neil Anthony→
director · ~60y · appointed 2010-03-02
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Active

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Recent filings (38 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-03
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2026-03-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-20
second-filing-of-confirmation-statement-with-made-up-date
confirmation-statement · RP04CS01
2022-07-07
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2022-07-06
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2022-07-06
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2022-07-06
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2022-07-06
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-15