KINNEFF FARMS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC392512 · ltd · incorporated 2011-01-31
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
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 10.8y old — refinance window within 12 months
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 46140
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 84-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 84). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · oldest 10.8y

85/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 10.8 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

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
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 4 with DOB)
86
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
37 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
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
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

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

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Average employees200200

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

1 signal 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
0
filings
Last 90 days
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filings
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-15
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  2. 2024-12-18
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  3. 2024-03-15
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  4. 2024-02-29
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  5. 2023-02-28
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  6. 2022-02-23
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  7. 2021-02-25
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  8. 2020-06-17
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  9. 2020-06-16
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  10. 2020-02-18
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    accounts · AA
  11. 2019-02-22
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  12. 2018-02-28
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  13. 2017-02-27
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  14. 2016-02-29
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  15. 2015-12-18
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  16. 2015-07-09
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    mortgage · MR01
  17. 2015-07-07
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  18. 2014-06-01
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    JACOBSEN, Symon Barber appointed
    director
  19. 2014-05-31
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    JACOBSEN, Alison resigned
    director
  20. 2014-05-31
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    JACOBSEN, James Anthony resigned
    director
  21. 2011-01-31
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    Company incorporated
    As KINNEFF FARMS LIMITED
  22. 2011-01-31
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    JACOBSEN, Anthony appointed
    secretary
  23. 2011-01-31
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    JACOBSEN, Anthony Morison appointed
    director
  24. 2011-01-31
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    JACOBSEN, Alison appointed
    director
  25. 2011-01-31
    ➕
    JACOBSEN, James Anthony 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 15 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 84 — 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 84 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 15 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 15 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 · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Symon Barber Jacobsen
Individual · British · DOB 08/1976 · age 50
75–100%
75–100%75-100% shares · 75-100% 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
Incorporated2011-01-31
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC46140 — SIC 46140

Registered office

Grange Of Kinneff
Inverbervie
Montrose
Angus
DD10 0TL

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-11-28
Last: 2025-11-14

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

JACOBSEN, Anthony→
secretary · appointed 2011-01-31
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Active
JACOBSEN, Anthony Morison→
director · ~84y · appointed 2011-01-31
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Active
JACOBSEN, Symon Barber→
director · ~50y · appointed 2014-06-01
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Active
JACOBSEN, Alison→
director · ~82y · appointed 2011-01-31 · resigned 2014-05-31
Resigned
JACOBSEN, James Anthony→
director · ~55y · appointed 2011-01-31 · resigned 2014-05-31
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
2
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
A registered charge1 property16/06/2020—
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
A registered charge—07/07/2015—
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Recent filings (37 total)

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accounts · AA
2025-12-15
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-11-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-12
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accounts · AA01
2024-03-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-02-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-12-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-02-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-12-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-02-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-12-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-02-25
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-12-14
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2020-06-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-02-18