YESTER FARM DAIRIES LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC396162 · ltd · incorporated 2011-03-23
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
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 10511
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 73-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 73). 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 (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 (4 active, 4 linked, 3 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
3 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
3 connected companies via shared directors
54
Filing history
54 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
Cash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Average employees14001500

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

3 signals detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
10
filings
  • • 3 persons-with-significant-control
  • • 2 confirmation-statement
  • • 2 officers
Last 180 days
13
filings
  • • 3 persons-with-significant-control
  • • 2 capital
  • • 2 resolution
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-04-27
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    capital-allotment-shares
    capital · SH01
  2. 2026-04-22
    📄
    memorandum-articles
    incorporation · MA
  3. 2026-04-22
    📄
    resolution
    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  4. 2026-04-21
    📄
    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
  5. 2026-04-21
    📄
    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  6. 2026-04-21
    📄
    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  7. 2026-03-30
    📄
    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  8. 2026-03-27
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    replacement-filing-of-confirmation-statement-with-made-up-date
    confirmation-statement · RP01CS01
  9. 2026-03-27
    📄
    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  10. 2026-02-06
    📄
    resolution
    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  11. 2026-02-05
    📄
    capital-allotment-shares
    capital · SH01
  12. 2025-12-22
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2025-06-18
    📄
    gazette-filings-brought-up-to-date
    gazette · DISS40
  14. 2025-06-17
    📄
    gazette-notice-compulsory
    gazette · GAZ1
  15. 2024-12-20
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  16. 2023-12-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  17. 2022-12-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  18. 2022-02-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  19. 2021-04-12
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  20. 2014-11-01
    ➕
    MULLEN, John appointed
    director
  21. 2013-03-06
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Clydesdale Bank PLC
  22. 2011-03-23
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As YESTER FARM DAIRIES LIMITED
  23. 2011-03-23
    ➕
    MCCREERY, Jacqueline appointed
    secretary
  24. 2011-03-23
    ➕
    MCCREERY, Jacqueline Edna Jayne appointed
    director
  25. 2011-03-23
    ➕
    MCCREERY, Simon appointed
    director

Owner dependency

83/100
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
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 15 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 73 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

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 73 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • 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.)

Group structure

All Things Butter Limited holds 25-50% — a significant corporate investor but not a controlling parent.

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All Things Butter Limited
Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares
significant stake
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YESTER FARM DAIRIES LIMITED
This company · SC396162

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

3 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
All Things Butter Limited
Corporate entity
25–50%
—25-50% shares17/04/2026
Mrs Jacqueline Edna Jayne Mccreery
Individual · British · DOB 12/1972 · age 54
—25–50%25-50% voting22/02/2019
Mr Simon Mccreery
Individual · British · DOB 06/1974 · age 52
—25–50%25-50% 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
Incorporated2011-03-23
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC10511 — SIC 10511

Registered office

Kilstrule
Yester Mains
Gifford
East Lothian
EH41 4JG

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-06
Last: 2026-03-23

Officers (4 active · 0 resigned)

MCCREERY, Jacqueline→
secretary · appointed 2011-03-23
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Active
MCCREERY, Jacqueline Edna Jayne→
director · ~54y · appointed 2011-03-23
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Active
MCCREERY, Simon→
director · ~52y · appointed 2011-03-23
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Active
MULLEN, John→
director · ~73y · appointed 2014-11-01
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Active

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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 property06/03/2013—
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Recent filings (54 total)

capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2026-04-27
memorandum-articles
incorporation · MA
2026-04-22
resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2026-04-22
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2026-04-21
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2026-04-21
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2026-04-21
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-02
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-03-30
replacement-filing-of-confirmation-statement-with-made-up-date
confirmation-statement · RP01CS01
2026-03-27
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-03-27
resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2026-02-06
capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2026-02-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-22
gazette-filings-brought-up-to-date
gazette · DISS40
2025-06-18
gazette-notice-compulsory
gazette · GAZ1
2025-06-17