A4 FARMERS LIMITED

🏛️Establishedactive

10850799 · ltd · incorporated 2017-07-05

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

—

book net assets

Opportunity

77/100

Strong

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What this business does

Primary activity: Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds

Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing

ALSO REGISTERED FOR

01500SIC 01500
01610Support activities for crop production

Investor take

Pursue

Strong opportunity: active trading company with strong profile and bankable structure.

Opportunity 77/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. High owner-dependency — earn-out structure likely required for clean transition. 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, 3 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

6 officers (5 active, 6 linked, 5 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

4 active PSC(s) of 6 total, 6 with control declared

Director network

5 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

33 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

77/100Strong

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.

Business quality

Adequate — check latest filings for context.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Average employees	8	800

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

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

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand

2025-12-17
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-03-24
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2025-03-21
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2025-03-21
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-03-21
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capital · SH01
2025-02-11
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2025-02-10
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2024-12-06
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-10-29
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2024-10-29
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2023-12-20
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accounts · AA
2023-10-17
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officers · AP01
2023-10-17
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officers · TM01
2023-09-01
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CORBETT, Laura Mary appointed
director
2023-09-01
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COOPER, Josephine Zoe resigned
director
2022-12-20
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accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-12-21
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accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-03-29
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accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2019-12-19
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accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2018-04-01
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PICKFORD, Robert James appointed
secretary
2017-07-05
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Company incorporated
As A4 FARMERS LIMITED
2017-07-05
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COOPER, Marcus Robert appointed
director
2017-07-05
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PICKFORD, Gabrielle Ann appointed
director
2017-07-05
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PICKFORD, Robert James appointed
director
2017-07-05
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COOPER, Josephine Zoe appointed
director

Owner dependency

63/100

High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS

-4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 83 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

60/100

Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 83 years old. Natural succession window is now.

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.

🏛️

D W Pickford & Sons Limited

Corporate parent

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The Gourmet Goat Farmer Limited

Corporate parent

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A4 FARMERS LIMITED

This company · 10850799

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

Shareholders & ownership

4 active beneficial owners · fragmented

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
D W Pickford & Sons Limited Corporate entity	—	25–50%	25-50% voting	08/08/2024
The Gourmet Goat Farmer Limited Corporate entity	—	25–50%	25-50% voting	08/08/2024
Mr Marcus Robert Cooper Individual · British · DOB 01/1943 · age 83	25–50%	—	25-50% shares	05/07/2017
Mr Robert James Pickford Individual · British · DOB 03/1968 · age 58	25–50%	—	25-50% shares	05/07/2017

2 historic (ceased) PSCs

D W Pickford & Sons Limitedceased 05/07/2017· 25-50% voting
Noremead Ltdceased 05/07/2017· 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

Incorporated2017-07-05

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC01110 — Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds

Registered office

Upper Farmhouse 7 Park Lane

Cherhill

Calne

Wiltshire

SN11 8XW

United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-04-21

Last: 2026-04-07