ANGLIA FREE RANGE EGGS LIMITED

📈Growthactive
07270629 · ltd · incorporated 2010-06-01
Investment thesis
Growth-phase business — story-led; valuation sensitive to momentum.
Why interesting: Trading is scaling; acquirers paying for trajectory get disproportionate leverage.
Why risky: Price often leads fundamentals; dependency on founder often high.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 13.1y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
£61.03M
year to Jun 2025
Net worth
—
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Wholesale of other food, including fish, crustaceans and molluscs
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
Pursue
Conservative operator with a 71-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 71). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (85/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 13.1y

80/100
ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

  • · Oldest live charge is 13.1 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.
  • · Profitable and stable/growing — lender coverage supportable.

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
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
5 officers (2 active, 5 linked, 5 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
10 connected companies via shared directors
75
Filing history
52 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
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
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102
Profitable
Profit before tax £3,957,532
Strong revenue growth
Turnover up 25% YoY
Turnover YoY
+25%
Year on year

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£0Jun 2024Jun 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-06-302024-06-30
Turnover£61.03M£49.01M
Gross profit£5.27M£4.62M
Operating profit£3.83M£3.49M
Profit before tax£3.96M£3.50M
Average employees60005800

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 (27 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-03-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-03-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-03-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-03-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-08-10
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
  6. 2022-03-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2021-06-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2020-03-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2019-03-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2018-03-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2017-10-01
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    address · AD01
  12. 2017-07-14
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
  13. 2017-07-14
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
  14. 2017-04-05
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    accounts · AA
  15. 2016-07-05
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    annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
    annual-return · AR01
  16. 2014-10-08
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    Charge satisfied #1
  17. 2014-09-30
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  18. 2014-03-25
    ➖
    VINCENT, Philip Robert John resigned
    director
  19. 2013-06-07
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Igf Invoice Finance Limited
  20. 2013-05-31
    ➖
    SOUTHGATE, Philip James resigned
    director
  21. 2013-05-31
    ➕
    VINCENT, Philip Robert John appointed
    director
  22. 2012-01-09
    ➖
    FORD, Randolph Godfrey resigned
    director
  23. 2012-01-09
    ➕
    SOUTHGATE, Philip James appointed
    director
  24. 2010-06-28
    ➕
    FORD, Randolph Godfrey appointed
    director
  25. 2010-06-01
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As ANGLIA FREE RANGE EGGS LIMITED
  26. 2010-06-01
    ➕
    DAVIDSON, Peter Geoffrey appointed
    director
  27. 2010-06-01
    ➕
    IRWIN, Henry James 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
  • +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.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 71 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

89/100
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 71 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • 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.)

Group structure

2 corporate shareholders identified. Group structure is distributed.

🏛️
Irwin Leasing Limited
Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares
significant stake
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C E Davidson Farms Limited
Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares
significant stake
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ANGLIA FREE RANGE EGGS LIMITED
This company · 07270629

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

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Irwin Leasing Limited
Corporate entity
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/04/2016
C E Davidson Farms Limited
Corporate entity
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
Incorporated2010-06-01
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC46380 — Wholesale of other food, including fish, crustaceans and molluscs

Registered office

Wingfield Hall Hall Road
Wingfield
Diss
IP21 5QX
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-03-31
Last made up to: 2025-06-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-06-15
Last: 2026-06-01

Officers (2 active · 3 resigned)

DAVIDSON, Peter Geoffrey→
director · ~71y · appointed 2010-06-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
IRWIN, Henry James→
director · ~67y · appointed 2010-06-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
FORD, Randolph Godfrey→
director · ~81y · appointed 2010-06-28 · resigned 2012-01-09
Resigned
SOUTHGATE, Philip James→
director · ~79y · appointed 2012-01-09 · resigned 2013-05-31
Resigned
VINCENT, Philip Robert John→
director · ~49y · appointed 2013-05-31 · resigned 2014-03-25
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
A registered charge—30/09/2014—
satisfied
Igf Invoice Finance
Igf Invoice Finance Limited
A registered charge—07/06/201308/10/2014
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Recent filings (52 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-06-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2026-03-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-06-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2025-03-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-06-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-03-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-06-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-03-27
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2022-08-10
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-06-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-03-29
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-06-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-06-14
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-06-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-03-31