CREWKERNE LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
FC021891 · oversea-company · incorporated 1998-01-28
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.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
not disclosed
Net worth
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 86-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 86). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: low (46/100)

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

Company profile
address, no SIC, incorporation date
80
Financials
No iXBRL financials extracted
0
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
4 officers (4 active, 4 linked, 3 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)
35
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
3 filings
60
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
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
80
Good data coverage for analysis.

Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
0
filings
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (8 events)Click to expand
  1. 1999-07-06
    ROSE GARDEN LIMITED appointed
    corporate-secretary
  2. 1999-07-06
    DUNTHORNE, Derrick Arthur appointed
    director
  3. 1999-07-06
    LEADER, Colin George appointed
    director
  4. 1999-07-06
    LEVETT, Grant Frederick appointed
    director
  5. 1999-07-06
    📄
    legacy
    incorporation · BR1-PAR
  6. 1999-07-06
    📄
    legacy
    incorporation · BR1-BCH
  7. 1999-07-06
    📄
    legacy
    incorporation · BR1
  8. 1998-01-28
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As CREWKERNE LIMITED

Owner dependency

75/100
High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 27 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 86 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

90/100
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 86 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 27 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 28 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.)
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Company details

Statusactive
Typeoversea-company
Incorporated1998-01-28
Jurisdictionunited-kingdom
Primary SIC

Registered office

Avenue House
St Julian'S Avenue
St Peter Port
Guernsey
GY1 1WA
Channel Islands

Filing status

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Officers (4 active · 0 resigned)

ROSE GARDEN LIMITED
corporate-secretary · appointed 1999-07-06
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Active
DUNTHORNE, Derrick Arthur
director · ~81y · appointed 1999-07-06
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Active
LEADER, Colin George
director · ~86y · appointed 1999-07-06
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Active
LEVETT, Grant Frederick
director · ~67y · appointed 1999-07-06
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Recent filings (3 total)

legacy
incorporation · BR1-PAR
1999-07-06
legacy
incorporation · BR1-BCH
1999-07-06
legacy
incorporation · BR1
1999-07-06