PEATTIE FARMS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC349282 · ltd · incorporated 2008-09-30
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 Mar 2025
Net worth
£112.0k
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds
Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 67-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 67). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Cash flow review and working-capital discipline. Cash down -73% YoY — forensic review of receivables, stock turns, and creditor days. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 16.4y

45/100
under pressure

Refinance would be pressure-driven, not opportunity-driven. Expect tighter margins and covenant scrutiny.

  • · Oldest live charge is 16.4 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Cashflow trend is negative — lender view likely cautious.

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
4 officers (3 active, 4 linked, 3 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
4 connected companies via shared directors
57
Filing history
45 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
75
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102
Positive net assets
Net assets £112,027
Net assets shrinking
Down £24,289 YoY
Cash draining
Cash down 73% YoY
Cash YoY
-73%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£41k
↓ 73% YoY
Net Worth
£112k
↓ 18% YoY
Current Assets
£74k
↓ 63% YoY
Current Liabilities
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£0£40k£79k£119k£159k£198kMar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Total assets£129.7k£156.8k
Current assets£73.7k£198.1k
Cash£41.0k£151.1k
Debtors£14.9k£27.5k
Net assets£112.0k£136.3k

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
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Last 180 days
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Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (22 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-08-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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  2. 2024-08-21
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  3. 2024-04-17
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    officers · AP01
  4. 2024-04-06
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    O'CONNOR, Janine appointed
    director
  5. 2023-07-14
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2022-07-07
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  7. 2021-11-25
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  8. 2021-01-06
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    accounts · AA
  9. 2020-02-17
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  10. 2019-07-31
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    accounts · AA
  11. 2018-10-03
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  12. 2018-10-03
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  13. 2018-10-03
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  14. 2018-08-02
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  15. 2018-07-18
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    SHAW, Kay Amanda appointed
    director
  16. 2018-07-18
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  17. 2018-04-29
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    SHAW, Graham Stewart resigned
    director
  18. 2017-08-18
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  19. 2009-12-15
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Clydesdale Bank PLC
  20. 2008-09-30
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    Company incorporated
    As PEATTIE FARMS LIMITED
  21. 2008-09-30
    ➕
    SHAW, Kay Amanda appointed
    secretary
  22. 2008-09-30
    ➕
    SHAW, Graham Stewart appointed
    director

Owner dependency

73/100
High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 67 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

56/100
Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 67. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.

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

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mrs Kay Amanda Shaw
Individual · British · DOB 03/1959 · age 67
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control18/07/2018
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Mr Graham Shawceased 29/04/2018· 75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control

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
Incorporated2008-09-30
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC01110 — Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds

Registered office

Peattie Farm
Coupar Angus
Perthshire
PH13 9LH

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-10-14
Last: 2025-09-30

Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)

SHAW, Kay Amanda→
secretary · appointed 2008-09-30
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Active
O'CONNOR, Janine→
director · ~42y · appointed 2024-04-06
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Active
SHAW, Kay Amanda→
director · ~67y · appointed 2018-07-18
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Active
SHAW, Graham Stewart→
director · ~62y · appointed 2008-09-30 · resigned 2018-04-29
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Virgin Money
Clydesdale Bank PLC
Floating charge1 property15/12/2009—
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Recent filings (45 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-10-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-08-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-10-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-08-21
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2024-04-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-10-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-07-14
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-10-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-07-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-11-25
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-09-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-01-06
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-09-30
change-account-reference-date-company-current-extended
accounts · AA01
2020-02-17
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-09-30