WEST KIRKLAND FARM LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC338780 · ltd · incorporated 2008-03-03

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

—

year to Mar 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

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 75-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 75). 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

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

3 officers (3 active, 3 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

45 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

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.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

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Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Average employees	2	200

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

filings

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 officers
• 1 persons-with-significant-control

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (19 events)Click to expand

2026-03-04
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-03-04
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change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-12-19
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-10-28
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accounts · AA
2023-12-01
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accounts · AA
2022-10-06
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accounts · AA
2021-11-29
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accounts · AA
2021-10-20
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capital · SH01
2021-10-19
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memorandum-articles
incorporation · MA
2021-10-19
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2020-10-16
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-10-18
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accounts · AA
2018-09-13
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accounts · AA
2017-09-21
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accounts · AA
2016-10-24
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2008-03-03
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Company incorporated
As WEST KIRKLAND FARM LIMITED
2008-03-03
➕
MARSHALL, Alan David appointed
secretary
2008-03-03
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MARSHALL, Alan David appointed
director
2008-03-03
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MARSHALL, Neil Alexander 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 75 — 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 75 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

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Alan David Marshall Individual · British · DOB 03/1951 · age 75	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	30/06/2016
Mr Neil Alexander Marshall Individual · British · DOB 04/1979 · age 47	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	30/06/2016

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

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Company	Est. value	Turnover	Net worth	Staff	Age	Opp	Director
BALGREGGAN FARMS LIMITED→ SC251076 · est 2003	£1.55M £1.19M–£1.91M	—	—	7	23y	82	61y
LARG FARMING COMPANY LIMITED→ SC247253 · est 2003	—	—	—	1	23y	83	89y
A & J MURCHIE LIMITED→ SC295564 · est 2006	—	—	—	900	20y	82	60y
A H S DRUMMOND (GLENSIDE) LIMITED→ SC324103 · est 2007	—	—	£743.7k	—	19y	82	84y
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

Incorporated2008-03-03

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC01410 — SIC 01410

Registered office

West Kirkland

Wigtown

Newton Stewart

Wigtownshire

DG8 9TE

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-03-17

Last: 2026-03-03

Officers (3 active · 0 resigned)

MARSHALL, Alan David→

secretary · appointed 2008-03-03

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Active

MARSHALL, Alan David→

director · ~75y · appointed 2008-03-03

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MARSHALL, Neil Alexander→

director · ~47y · appointed 2008-03-03

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Recent filings (45 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2026-03-05

change-person-director-company-with-change-date

officers · CH01

2026-03-04

change-to-a-person-with-significant-control

persons-with-significant-control · PSC04

2026-03-04