COLLAFIRTH SEAFARMS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC335991 · ltd · incorporated 2008-01-10
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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year to Jan 2025
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Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 03210
Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 70-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 70). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: high (81/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

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
3 officers (3 active, 3 linked, 2 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
9 connected companies via shared directors
72
Filing history
39 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

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

Recent activity

Last 30 days
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Last 90 days
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Last 180 days
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  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (19 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-09-22
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  2. 2024-09-23
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  3. 2023-09-20
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  4. 2022-10-21
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  5. 2021-09-22
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  6. 2021-02-16
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  7. 2019-10-01
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  8. 2018-09-27
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  9. 2017-10-03
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  10. 2016-10-11
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  11. 2016-01-20
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  16. 2008-01-10
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    Company incorporated
    As COLLAFIRTH SEAFARMS LIMITED
  17. 2008-01-10
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    JOHNSON, Ivor Gilbert appointed
    secretary
  18. 2008-01-10
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    JOHNSON, Angus appointed
    director
  19. 2008-01-10
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    JOHNSON, Ivor Gilbert appointed
    director

Owner dependency

91/100
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 18 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 70 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

89/100
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 70 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 18 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 18 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 Angus Johnson
Individual · British · DOB 12/1956 · age 70
—25–50%25-50% voting06/04/2016
Mr Ivor Gilbert Johnson
Individual · British · DOB 05/1967 · age 59
—25–50%25-50% voting06/04/2016

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
Incorporated2008-01-10
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC03210 — SIC 03210

Registered office

Marine Park
Vidlin
Shetland
ZE2 9QB

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-10-31
Last made up to: 2025-01-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-01-24
Last: 2026-01-10

Officers (3 active · 0 resigned)

JOHNSON, Ivor Gilbert→
secretary · appointed 2008-01-10
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JOHNSON, Angus→
director · ~70y · appointed 2008-01-10
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JOHNSON, Ivor Gilbert→
director · ~59y · appointed 2008-01-10
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Recent filings (39 total)

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confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-01-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2025-09-22
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-01-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2024-09-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-01-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2023-09-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-01-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2022-10-21
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-01-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2021-09-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-02-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2021-02-16
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-01-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2019-10-01
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-01-10