GREENSHIELDS AGRI LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC381819 · ltd · incorporated 2010-07-12
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 13.2y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Jun 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
83/100
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 70-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 70). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 13.2y

85/100
ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

  • · Oldest live charge is 13.2 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (84/100)

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
8 officers (4 active, 8 linked, 8 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
0 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
18 connected companies via shared directors
90
Filing history
53 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
83/100Exceptional
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
85
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Jun 2024Jun 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · IFRS
Metric2025-06-302024-06-30
Average employees141300

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

5 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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filings
Last 90 days
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filings
Last 180 days
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  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (30 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-01-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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  2. 2025-03-06
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  3. 2024-02-22
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  4. 2023-05-23
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    address · AD01
  5. 2022-11-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
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  6. 2021-11-03
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  7. 2020-11-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2020-01-30
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    MORRISON, Douglas Malcolm resigned
    director
  9. 2020-01-30
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    officers · TM01
  10. 2019-12-10
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  11. 2019-10-01
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  12. 2019-09-30
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    JACKSON, William Milburn resigned
    director
  13. 2019-01-09
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  14. 2019-01-09
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  15. 2018-12-31
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    JACKSON, William Milburn appointed
    director
  16. 2018-12-31
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    MORRISON, Douglas Malcolm appointed
    director
  17. 2018-12-20
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  18. 2018-05-30
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  19. 2018-05-29
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  20. 2017-12-04
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  21. 2014-10-09
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    YASUMOTO, Yoshikatsu resigned
    director
  22. 2013-02-19
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  23. 2012-10-29
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    JACKSON, Peter Alan appointed
    director
  24. 2010-12-14
    ➕
    BOASE, William Henry appointed
    director
  25. 2010-12-14
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    GOODGAL, Jay Charles appointed
    director
  26. 2010-12-14
    ➕
    MCKENNA, James David appointed
    director
  27. 2010-12-14
    ➖
    WILLIAMSON, Andrew Grant resigned
    director
  28. 2010-12-14
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    YASUMOTO, Yoshikatsu appointed
    director
  29. 2010-07-12
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    Company incorporated
    As GREENSHIELDS AGRI LIMITED
  30. 2010-07-12
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    WILLIAMSON, Andrew Grant appointed
    director

Owner dependency

65/100
High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS
  • -4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 15 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 70 — 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 70 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 15 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 16 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.)
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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2010-07-12
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC01110 — Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds

Registered office

5 South Charlotte Street
Edinburgh
EH2 4AN
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-03-31
Last made up to: 2025-06-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-07-26
Last: 2025-07-12

Officers (4 active · 4 resigned)

BOASE, William Henry→
director · ~68y · appointed 2010-12-14
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Active
GOODGAL, Jay Charles→
director · ~70y · appointed 2010-12-14
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Active
JACKSON, Peter Alan→
director · ~68y · appointed 2012-10-29
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Active
MCKENNA, James David→
director · ~61y · appointed 2010-12-14
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
JACKSON, William Milburn→
director · ~70y · appointed 2018-12-31 · resigned 2019-09-30
Resigned
MORRISON, Douglas Malcolm→
director · ~80y · appointed 2018-12-31 · resigned 2020-01-30
Resigned
WILLIAMSON, Andrew Grant→
director · ~59y · appointed 2010-07-12 · resigned 2010-12-14
Resigned
YASUMOTO, Yoshikatsu→
director · ~71y · appointed 2010-12-14 · resigned 2014-10-09
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Floating charge1 property19/02/2013—
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Recent filings (53 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-01-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-07-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2025-03-06
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-07-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2024-02-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-07-13
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2023-05-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2022-11-01
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-07-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2021-11-03
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-07-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2020-11-04
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-07-13
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2020-01-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2019-12-10