MOORES ANIMAL FEEDS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

NI020611 · ltd · incorporated 1987-06-18

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

£42.15M

year to Apr 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 10910

Sector: Manufacturing

Investor take

Pursue

Conservative operator with a 69-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 69). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (78/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (69/100)

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

1 year of iXBRL accounts extracted (no YoY comparison) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

8 officers (5 active, 8 linked, 4 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared

Director network

Network not yet resolved

Filing history

101 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

🔒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

80/100Exceptional

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

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102

Profitable

Profit before tax £2,174,220

Key financials

1 year extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

—

Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-04-30
Turnover	£42.15M
Gross profit	£4.14M
Operating profit	£1.94M
Profit before tax	£2.17M
Average employees	3300

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

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (28 events)Click to expand

2026-01-12
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2025-01-21
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accounts · AA
2024-10-28
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2024-10-28
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-12-11
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accounts · AA
2023-08-23
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officers · CH01
2023-01-04
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accounts · AA
2022-09-29
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MOORE, Phillip appointed
secretary
2022-09-29
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CHESNEY, Samuel resigned
secretary
2022-09-29
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officers · AP03
2022-09-29
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officers · TM02
2022-01-12
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accounts · AA
2021-03-31
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accounts · AA
2020-12-31
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MOORE, Phillip appointed
director
2020-12-31
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MOORE, William appointed
director
2020-12-31
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officers · AP01
2020-12-31
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officers · AP01
2020-01-07
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accounts · AA
2019-01-08
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2018-01-04
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2008-12-02
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CHESNEY, Samuel appointed
secretary
2008-12-02
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GLENN, Rhonda Nancy resigned
secretary
2006-12-01
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FLECK, Elizabeth resigned
secretary
2006-12-01
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GLENN, Rhonda Nancy appointed
secretary
1987-06-18
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Company incorporated
As MOORES ANIMAL FEEDS LIMITED
1987-06-18
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MOORE, John appointed
director
1987-06-18
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MOORE, Margaret appointed
director
1987-06-18
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FLECK, Elizabeth appointed
secretary

Owner dependency

88/100

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

-4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "MOORE" — strong identity link between founder and business.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 39 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 69 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

80/100

Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 69. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 39 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 39 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

1 active beneficial owner

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr John Moore Individual · British · DOB 07/1957 · age 69	25–50%	—	25-50% shares	06/04/2016

1 historic (ceased) PSC

Mrs Margaret Mooreceased 19/04/2023· 25-50% shares

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

Incorporated1987-06-18

Jurisdictionnorthern-ireland

Primary SIC10910 — SIC 10910

Registered office

116 Carnalbanagh Road

Broughshane

Ballymena

Co Antrim

BT42 4NT

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-01-31

Last made up to: 2025-04-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-11-10

Last: 2025-10-27