BALGREGGAN FARMS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC251076 · ltd · incorporated 2003-06-12

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.

Opportunity decay

approaching window · 12-months

Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.

· Oldest live charge 22.2y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Jun 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

82/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 01410

Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 61-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 61). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 22.2y

50/100

clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

· Oldest live charge is 22.2 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
· Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (79/100)

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

Lenders & charges

2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)

Directors & officers

4 officers (3 active, 4 linked, 2 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

1 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

50 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.

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Opportunity Score

82/100Exceptional

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

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-06-30	2024-06-30
Average employees	7	800

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

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2 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

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand

2026-02-20
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2025-03-13
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2024-02-21
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2023-01-30
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2022-03-21
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2021-03-23
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2020-02-20
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2019-03-07
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2018-03-28
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2017-03-28
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2016-06-16
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2016-04-06
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accounts · AA
2015-12-29
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mortgage · MR01
2015-12-18
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Charge registered #2
Lender: Clydesdale Bank PLC (Trading as Both Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank) (Company Number SC001111)
2015-06-17
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2015-03-30
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2014-06-16
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2004-03-06
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
2003-06-12
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Company incorporated
As BALGREGGAN FARMS LIMITED
2003-06-12
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SERVICE, William John appointed
secretary
2003-06-12
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SERVICE, Jacqueline Martin appointed
director
2003-06-12
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SERVICE, William John appointed
director
2003-06-12
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OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
2003-06-12
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OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary

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 23 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 23 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 23 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

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mrs Jacqueline Martin Service Individual · British · DOB 05/1966 · age 60	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	30/06/2016
Mr William John Service Individual · British · DOB 11/1965 · age 61	25–50%	—	25-50% shares	30/06/2016

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

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A. LOCHHEAD FISHING COMPANY LIMITED→ SC328174 · est 2007	—	—	£63.6k	—	18y	82	67y
ALLAN SMITH FENCING & FORESTRY LIMITED→ SC287999 · est 2005	—	—	—	2	20y	82	71y
CRAIGADAM FARM LIMITED→ SC153308 · est 1994	—	—	£48.7k	—	31y	82	74y
CROCHMORE FARMS LIMITED→ SC338012 · est 2008	—	—	—	200	18y	82	77y
G RAE CONTRACTING→ SC339954 · est 2008 · no financials extracted	—	—	—	—	18y	82	73y
H J WALKER & COMPANY LIMITED→ SC345386 · est 2008	—	—	—	4	17y	82	86y
HARDGRAVE FARM, (DUMFRIES) LIMITED→ SC030389 · est 1954	—	—	—	1300	71y	82	61y
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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2003-06-12

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC01410 — SIC 01410

Registered office

1 Dashwood Square

Newton Stewart

DG9 6EQ

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-03-31

Last made up to: 2025-06-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-06-26

Last: 2025-06-12

Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)

SERVICE, William John→

secretary · appointed 2003-06-12

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Active

SERVICE, Jacqueline Martin→

director · ~60y · appointed 2003-06-12

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Active

SERVICE, William John→

director · ~61y · appointed 2003-06-12

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Active

OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2003-06-12 · resigned 2003-06-12

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown

			Type	Properties
	outstanding	Virgin Money Clydesdale Bank PLC (Trading as Both Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank) (Company Number SC001111)	A registered charge	—	18/12/2015	—
	outstanding	Virgin Money Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company	Floating charge	1 property	06/03/2004	—

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