BLACKBIRD FARMING LIMITED

🏛️Establishedactive

11850170 · ltd · incorporated 2019-02-27

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

—

not disclosed

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

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 77-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 77/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (60/100, director aged 77). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: low (53/100)

Sparse data coverage. Treat AI-generated outputs as preliminary. Manual diligence essential.

Company profile

address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

No iXBRL financials extracted

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

3 officers (3 active, 3 linked, 1 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared

Director network

Network not yet resolved

Filing history

16 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.

Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (13 events)Click to expand

2026-01-12
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accounts · AA
2025-01-15
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accounts · AA
2024-01-29
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accounts · AA
2023-01-25
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accounts · AA
2022-02-01
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accounts · AA
2021-02-04
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accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2019-11-25
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accounts · AA
2019-03-26
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accounts · AA01
2019-02-27
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Company incorporated
As BLACKBIRD FARMING LIMITED
2019-02-27
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HADLOW, Julie Ann appointed
secretary
2019-02-27
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DOUBLEDAY, Edmund Garth appointed
director
2019-02-27
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G H DEAN AND COMPANY LTD appointed
corporate-director
2019-02-27
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incorporation-company
incorporation · NEWINC

Owner dependency

73/100

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.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 77 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

66/100

Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 77 years old. Natural succession window is now.
secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.

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

G H Dean And Company Ltd is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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G H Dean And Company Ltd

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control

ultimate parent

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BLACKBIRD FARMING LIMITED

This company · 11850170

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%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
G H Dean And Company Ltd Corporate entity	75–100%	75–100%	board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control	27/02/2019

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

Incorporated2019-02-27

Jurisdictionengland-wales

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

Registered office

Farm Office Hempstead Farm

Tonge

Sittingbourne

Kent

ME9 9BH

United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-06-30

Last made up to: 2025-09-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-03-10

Last: 2026-02-24

Officers (3 active · 0 resigned)

HADLOW, Julie Ann→

secretary · appointed 2019-02-27

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Active

DOUBLEDAY, Edmund Garth→

director · ~77y · appointed 2019-02-27

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Active

G H DEAN AND COMPANY LTD→

corporate-director · appointed 2019-02-27

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Active

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