TARRAS FARMS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC174187 · ltd · incorporated 1997-04-08
Investment thesis
Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.
Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.
Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.
Opportunity decay
hardening · 12-months
Already tight — no obvious softening catalysts on the horizon.
  • · Thesis: well-run, low negotiation leverage
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Jan 2025
Net worth
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Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 01500
Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 63-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 63). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (76/100)

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
75
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
5 officers (2 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)
78
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
89 filings on record
85
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
80
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Jan 2024Jan 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-01-312024-01-31
Average employees100100

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

1 signal detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-10-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
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  2. 2024-10-17
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  3. 2023-10-26
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  4. 2022-10-10
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  5. 2022-03-15
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    WHITE, Philippa Jane Aitken appointed
    director
  6. 2022-03-15
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    R & R URQUHART LLP resigned
    corporate-secretary
  7. 2022-03-15
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  8. 2022-03-15
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  9. 2022-03-15
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  10. 2022-03-15
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  11. 2022-03-15
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    address · AD01
  12. 2021-11-25
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  13. 2020-08-19
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  14. 2019-10-10
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  15. 2018-10-15
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  16. 2018-06-13
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  17. 2017-08-23
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  18. 1997-04-08
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    Company incorporated
    As TARRAS FARMS LIMITED
  19. 1997-04-08
    ➕
    WHITE, Douglas James Moorby appointed
    director
  20. 1997-04-08
    ➕
    OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  21. 1997-04-08
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    OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  22. 1997-04-08
    ➕
    R & R URQUHART LLP appointed
    corporate-secretary
  23. 1997-04-08
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    JORDANS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  24. 1997-04-08
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    JORDANS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

84/100
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.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 29 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 63 — approaching natural succession window.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

86/100
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 63. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 29 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 29 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

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mrs Philippa Jane Aitken White
Individual · British · DOB 08/1966 · age 60
——sig. influencesignificant influence29/11/2017
Mr Douglas James Moorby White
Individual · British · DOB 07/1963 · age 63
——sig. influencesignificant influence06/04/2016

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
Incorporated1997-04-08
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC01500 — SIC 01500

Registered office

Cassieford
Forres
Moray
IV36 2TR
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-10-31
Last made up to: 2025-01-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-22
Last: 2026-04-08

Officers (2 active · 3 resigned)

WHITE, Douglas James Moorby→
director · ~63y · appointed 1997-04-08
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Active
WHITE, Philippa Jane Aitken→
director · ~60y · appointed 2022-03-15
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Active
OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1997-04-08 · resigned 1997-04-08
Resigned
R & R URQUHART LLP→
corporate-secretary · appointed 1997-04-08 · resigned 2022-03-15
Resigned
JORDANS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 1997-04-08 · resigned 1997-04-08
Resigned

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Recent filings (89 total)

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confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-14
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accounts · AA
2025-10-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-10-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-10-26
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-04-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-10-10
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-04-20
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2022-03-15
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2022-03-15
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2022-03-15
termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2022-03-15
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2022-03-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-11-25