CALLENDAR ESTATE (BIOMASS) LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC362480 · ltd · incorporated 2009-07-10

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

81/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 02400

Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 75-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 75). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

5 officers (4 active, 5 linked, 3 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared

Director network

6 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

46 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

81/100Exceptional

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

—

Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Average employees	0	0

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

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (22 events)Click to expand

2025-12-15
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2024-12-16
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2023-11-08
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2022-12-19
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-12-08
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-03-25
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-12-18
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2020-12-18
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC09
2019-12-23
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accounts · AA
2018-12-14
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accounts · AA
2018-12-04
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capital · SH01
2017-12-20
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2017-01-03
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2016-01-05
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2015-07-17
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2014-08-27
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AS COMPANY SERVICES LIMITED appointed
corporate-secretary
2014-08-27
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MORISONS SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
corporate-secretary
2009-07-10
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Company incorporated
As CALLENDAR ESTATE (BIOMASS) LIMITED
2009-07-10
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AITKENHEAD, James Alister appointed
director
2009-07-10
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SCHNEIDER, Emma appointed
director
2009-07-10
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WEDDERBURN, Alexander Guy appointed
director
2009-07-10
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MORISONS SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
corporate-secretary

Owner dependency

75/100

High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS

+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 17 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 75 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

83/100

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.
secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 17 years.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 17 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

1 active beneficial owner

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Alister Aitkenhead Individual · British · DOB 04/1951 · age 75	—	—	sig. influencesignificant influence · trust interest	31/03/2018

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

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Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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Similar companies

Active · Agriculture · FK postcode area

Company	Est. value	Turnover	Net worth	Staff	Age	Opp	Director
A D GRAHAM (FARMER) LIMITED→ SC069941 · est 1979	—	—	—	200	46y	82	63y
BARR FARMS LIMITED→ SC256406 · est 2003	—	—	—	1900	22y	82	70y
CHRISTIE STEWART LTD→ SC174039 · est 1997	—	—	£672.9k	—	29y	82	60y
COXHILL FARM LIMITED→ SC292962 · est 2005	—	—	—	0	20y	82	68y
GSP FARMS LIMITED→ SC046588 · est 1969 · no financials extracted	—	—	—	—	56y	82	58y
JOHN CAMERON. (GRAZIER) LIMITED→ SC033835 · est 1959	—	—	—	200	67y	82	74y
LAURENT BIENFAIT WOODLANDS SERVICES LIMITED→ SC360661 · est 2009	—	—	£254.1k	—	16y	82	64y
LAXDALE FOODSERVICE LIMITED→ SC035377 · est 1960	—	—	£1.80M	—	65y	82	89y
LINKSFIELD LAND DRAINAGE LIMITED→ SC177497 · est 1997	—	—	—	0	28y	82	58y
SCOTTISH SEA FARMS SALES LIMITED→ SC165107 · est 1996 · no financials extracted	—	—	—	—	30y	82	58y
ALAN MOTION TREE CONSULTING LTD.→ SC396461 · est 2011	—	—	£1.1k	—	15y	80	64y
RITCHIE PROPERTY LIMITED→ SC845840 · est 2025 · no financials extracted	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

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7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2009-07-10

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC02400 — SIC 02400

Registered office

Callender Estate Office

Slamannan Road

Falkirk

FK1 5LX

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-07-24

Last: 2025-07-10

Officers (4 active · 1 resigned)

AS COMPANY SERVICES LIMITED→

corporate-secretary · appointed 2014-08-27

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Active

AITKENHEAD, James Alister→

director · ~75y · appointed 2009-07-10

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Active

SCHNEIDER, Emma→

director · ~62y · appointed 2009-07-10

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Active

WEDDERBURN, Alexander Guy→

director · ~61y · appointed 2009-07-10

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Active

MORISONS SECRETARIES LIMITED→

corporate-secretary · appointed 2009-07-10 · resigned 2014-08-27

Resigned

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Recent filings (46 total)

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accounts · AA

2025-12-15

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2025-08-18

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2024-12-16

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2024-08-26

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2023-11-08

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2023-08-15

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2022-12-19

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2022-09-06

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2021-12-08

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2021-09-06

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2021-03-25

notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control

persons-with-significant-control · PSC01

2020-12-18

withdrawal-of-a-person-with-significant-control-statement

persons-with-significant-control · PSC09

2020-12-18

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2020-07-13

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2019-12-23