DA, CMJ & LA TOTTLE LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

07403483 · ltd · incorporated 2010-10-11

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 15.4y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Oct 2025

Net worth

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book net assets

Opportunity

82/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 01420

Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 81-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 81). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 15.4y

65/100

clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

· Oldest live charge is 15.4 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (78/100)

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

Lenders & charges

1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)

Directors & officers

3 officers (2 active, 3 linked, 3 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

3 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared

Director network

Network not yet resolved

Filing history

37 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

82/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

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Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-10-31	2024-10-31
Average employees	200	200

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

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3 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

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (21 events)Click to expand

2026-03-13
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accounts · AA
2025-07-08
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accounts · AA
2024-04-10
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accounts · AA
2023-07-21
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accounts · AA
2022-07-29
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accounts · AA
2021-07-14
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accounts · AA
2020-10-22
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accounts · AA
2019-07-31
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accounts · AA
2018-07-27
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accounts · AA
2018-04-10
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officers · TM01
2017-12-31
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TOTTLE, Christine Mary Joy resigned
director
2017-06-17
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accounts · AA
2016-10-25
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address · AD01
2016-07-26
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accounts · AA
2015-10-12
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annual-return · AR01
2015-07-31
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accounts · AA
2011-03-18
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC
2010-10-11
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Company incorporated
As DA, CMJ & LA TOTTLE LIMITED
2010-10-11
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TOTTLE, Derek Arnold appointed
director
2010-10-11
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TOTTLE, Leslie Arnold appointed
director
2010-10-11
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TOTTLE, Christine Mary Joy appointed
director

Owner dependency

100/100

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.
+Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "TOTTLE" — 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 81 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

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 81 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.)

Shareholders & ownership

3 active beneficial owners

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mrs Christine Mary Joy Tottle Individual · British · DOB 08/1945 · age 81	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	06/04/2016
Mr Derek Arnold Tottle Individual · British · DOB 11/1945 · age 81	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	06/04/2016
Mr Leslie Arnold Tottle Individual · British · DOB 09/1969 · age 57	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	06/04/2016

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

Incorporated2010-10-11

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC01420 — SIC 01420

Registered office

Meadow View Little Marston Road

Marston Magna

Yeovil

Somerset

BA22 8BN

United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-07-31

Last made up to: 2025-10-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-10-25

Last: 2025-10-11

Officers (2 active · 1 resigned)

TOTTLE, Derek Arnold→

director · ~81y · appointed 2010-10-11

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Active

TOTTLE, Leslie Arnold→

director · ~57y · appointed 2010-10-11

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Active

TOTTLE, Christine Mary Joy→

director · ~81y · appointed 2010-10-11 · resigned 2017-12-31

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown

			Type	Properties
	outstanding	Lloyds Banking Group Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC	Debenture	1 property	18/03/2011	—

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