FALKLAND WOOL GROWERS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC176228 · ltd · incorporated 1997-06-09
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
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year to Nov 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Agents selling agricultural raw materials, live animals, textile raw materials and semi-finished goods
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 61-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 61). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (78/100)

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 (3 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)
78
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
67 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
Cash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Nov 2024Nov 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-11-302024-11-30
Average employees22

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

2 signals 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
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-03-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-08-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-07-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-08-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-08-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2021-10-20
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  7. 2021-09-07
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2020-10-12
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2019-08-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2018-09-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2017-07-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  12. 2016-08-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  13. 2016-06-21
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    annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
    annual-return · AR01
  14. 2015-08-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  15. 2015-07-02
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    annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
    annual-return · AR01
  16. 2014-08-05
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  17. 1997-06-09
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    Company incorporated
    As FALKLAND WOOL GROWERS LIMITED
  18. 1997-06-09
    ➕
    HALL, Diane appointed
    secretary
  19. 1997-06-09
    ➕
    HALL, Diane appointed
    director
  20. 1997-06-09
    ➕
    HALL, Robert Hugh Bullock appointed
    director
  21. 1997-06-09
    ➕
    YORK PLACE COMPANY SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-secretary
  22. 1997-06-09
    ➖
    YORK PLACE COMPANY SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-secretary
  23. 1997-06-09
    ➕
    YORK PLACE COMPANY NOMINEES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-director
  24. 1997-06-09
    ➖
    YORK PLACE COMPANY NOMINEES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-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 61 — approaching natural succession window.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

76/100
Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS
  • secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 61. Early succession window.
  • 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
Mr Robert Hugh Bullock Hall
Individual · British · DOB 12/1965 · age 61
50–75%
—50-75% shares06/04/2016
Mrs Diane Hall
Individual · British · DOB 01/1968 · age 58
25–50%
—25-50% shares01/01/2020

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
Incorporated1997-06-09
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC46110 — Agents selling agricultural raw materials, live animals, textile raw materials and semi-finished goods

Registered office

Craiglearan
Moniaive
Thornhill
Dumfriesshire
DG3 4JD

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-08-31
Last made up to: 2025-11-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-06-23
Last: 2025-06-09

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

HALL, Diane→
secretary · appointed 1997-06-09
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HALL, Diane→
director · ~58y · appointed 1997-06-09
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HALL, Robert Hugh Bullock→
director · ~61y · appointed 1997-06-09
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
YORK PLACE COMPANY SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-secretary · appointed 1997-06-09 · resigned 1997-06-09
Resigned
YORK PLACE COMPANY NOMINEES LIMITED→
corporate-director · appointed 1997-06-09 · resigned 1997-06-09
Resigned

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Recent filings (67 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-03-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-08-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-06-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-07-04
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-06-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-08-01
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-06-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-08-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-06-09
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2021-10-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-09-07
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-06-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-10-12
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-06-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-08-20