HOLME FARM FRUITS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC472155 · ltd · incorporated 2014-03-11
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 12.1y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Sept 2024
Net worth
£79.7k
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 10390
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 77-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 77). 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 12.1y

85/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 12.1 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
7 officers (6 active, 7 linked, 6 with DOB)
87
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
16 connected companies via shared directors
90
Filing history
32 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 · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £79,719

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
—
Net Worth
£80k
↑ 5.3% YoY
Current Assets
£27k
↓ 71% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
£0£18k£36k£55k£73k£91kSept 2023Sept 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2024-09-302023-09-30
Total assets£185.3k£82.6k
Current assets£26.8k£90.9k
Net assets£79.7k£75.7k

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

Recent activity

Last 30 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 officers
Last 90 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 officers
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 officers
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-04-06
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  2. 2026-04-03
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    HUGHES, Brendan resigned
    director
  3. 2025-06-30
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  4. 2024-06-05
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  5. 2023-06-23
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  6. 2022-06-17
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  7. 2021-06-08
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  8. 2020-06-23
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  9. 2019-06-26
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  10. 2019-03-21
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  11. 2019-03-21
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  12. 2019-03-21
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  13. 2018-06-26
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  14. 2017-06-20
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  15. 2016-04-20
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  16. 2016-04-01
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  17. 2014-03-12
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Kiril Mischeff Limited
  18. 2014-03-11
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    Company incorporated
    As HOLME FARM FRUITS LIMITED
  19. 2014-03-11
    ➕
    THOMSON, Michael appointed
    secretary
  20. 2014-03-11
    ➕
    GREEN, Charles appointed
    director
  21. 2014-03-11
    ➕
    MIRCHEV, Dimiter Alexandrov appointed
    director
  22. 2014-03-11
    ➕
    SMITH, Alan appointed
    director
  23. 2014-03-11
    ➕
    THOMSON, Michael Graham appointed
    director
  24. 2014-03-11
    ➕
    THOMSON, Oliver Graham Grant appointed
    director
  25. 2014-03-11
    ➕
    HUGHES, Brendan appointed
    director

Owner dependency

63/100
High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS
  • -5 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 77 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

73/100
Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 77 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 12 years.
  • 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

2 corporate shareholders identified. Group structure is distributed.

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Kiril Mischeff Ltd
Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares
significant stake
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Trade Solutions (Scotland) Lts
Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares
significant stake
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HOLME FARM FRUITS LIMITED
This company · SC472155

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

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Kiril Mischeff Ltd
Corporate entity
25–50%
—25-50% shares19/03/2019
Trade Solutions (Scotland) Lts
Corporate entity
25–50%
—25-50% shares19/03/2019

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
Incorporated2014-03-11
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC10390 — SIC 10390

Registered office

East Gormack
Blairgowrie
Perthshire
PH10 6TA

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-06-30
Last made up to: 2024-09-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-25
Last: 2026-03-11

Officers (6 active · 1 resigned)

THOMSON, Michael→
secretary · appointed 2014-03-11
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Active
GREEN, Charles→
director · ~61y · appointed 2014-03-11
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Active
MIRCHEV, Dimiter Alexandrov→
director · ~67y · appointed 2014-03-11
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Active
SMITH, Alan→
director · ~55y · appointed 2014-03-11
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Active
THOMSON, Michael Graham→
director · ~77y · appointed 2014-03-11
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Active
THOMSON, Oliver Graham Grant→
director · ~44y · appointed 2014-03-11
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Active
HUGHES, Brendan→
director · ~53y · appointed 2014-03-11 · resigned 2026-04-03
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Kiril Mischeff
Kiril Mischeff Limited
A registered charge1 property12/03/2014—
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Recent filings (32 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-07
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2026-04-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-06-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-06-05
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-06-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-06-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-06-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-05-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2020-06-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-03-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2019-06-26