ALAN BRIND TREE SERVICES LTD

🌳Matureactive
07267935 · ltd · incorporated 2010-05-28
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 May 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 02200
Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 60-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 60). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (79/100)

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
4 officers (2 active, 4 linked, 4 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
51 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 Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0May 2024May 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-05-282024-05-28
Average employees500600

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
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
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 (22 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-02-27
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  2. 2025-06-02
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  3. 2025-02-27
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  4. 2024-02-28
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  5. 2023-02-27
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  6. 2022-02-28
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  7. 2021-05-26
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  8. 2020-02-28
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  9. 2019-02-27
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  10. 2018-02-26
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  11. 2017-02-15
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  12. 2016-06-22
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  13. 2016-06-22
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    address · AD01
  14. 2016-02-24
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  15. 2015-06-17
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  16. 2014-04-06
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    RYDER, Daniel Paul appointed
    director
  17. 2010-05-29
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    RYDER, Daniel Paul resigned
    director
  18. 2010-05-28
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    Company incorporated
    As ALAN BRIND TREE SERVICES LTD
  19. 2010-05-28
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    MADDEN, Logan David appointed
    director
  20. 2010-05-28
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    RYDER, Daniel Paul appointed
    director
  21. 2010-05-28
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    STEPHENS, Graham Robertson appointed
    director
  22. 2010-05-28
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    STEPHENS, Graham Robertson resigned
    director

Owner dependency

76/100
High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 16 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 60 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

69/100
Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS
  • secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 60. Early succession window.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • 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.)

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Daniel Paul Ryder
Individual · British · DOB 05/1973 · age 53
—25–50%25-50% voting06/04/2016
Mr Logan David Madden
Individual · British · DOB 10/1966 · age 60
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016

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
Incorporated2010-05-28
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC02200 — SIC 02200

Registered office

Unit 20 Mitchell Close
Fareham
PO15 5SE
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-02-28
Last made up to: 2025-05-28
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-06-11
Last: 2026-05-28

Officers (2 active · 2 resigned)

MADDEN, Logan David→
director · ~60y · appointed 2010-05-28
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Active
RYDER, Daniel Paul→
director · ~53y · appointed 2014-04-06
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Active
RYDER, Daniel Paul→
director · ~53y · appointed 2010-05-28 · resigned 2010-05-29
Resigned
STEPHENS, Graham Robertson→
director · ~76y · appointed 2010-05-28 · resigned 2010-05-28
Resigned

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Recent filings (51 total)

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confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-06-21
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accounts · AA
2026-02-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-06-02
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address · AD01
2025-06-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-02-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-06-05
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accounts · AA
2024-02-28
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-06-12
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accounts · AA
2023-02-27
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2022-06-08
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accounts · AA
2022-02-28
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-06-09
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accounts · AA
2021-05-26
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-06-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-02-28