A HUGHES AND SON(SKELLINGTHORPE)LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

00549113 · ltd · incorporated 1955-05-12

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.

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

£28.41M

year to Dec 2024

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Processing and preserving of meat

Sector: Manufacturing

ALSO REGISTERED FOR

10120SIC 10120
38210SIC 38210

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 68-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 67/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 68). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Consolidate lender relationships. 6 distinct lenders creates friction — refinance into single-lender structure for cleaner diligence. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (77/100).

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Refinance opportunity

10 live charges · 6 lenders · oldest 61.6y

25/100

too messy

Structure is too messy for a clean refinance right now — clean up first or expect bespoke terms.

· Oldest live charge is 61.6 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· 6 lenders named — inter-creditor friction likely.
· Legal-friction score 45/100 (high).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (76/100)

Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.

Company profile

address, 3 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

1 year of iXBRL accounts extracted (no YoY comparison) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

10 charges (10/10 with lender, 10/10 with type)

Directors & officers

17 officers (7 active, 17 linked, 13 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

21 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

135 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Opportunity Score

80/100Exceptional

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

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102

Profitable

Profit before tax £251,949

Key financials

1 year extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

—

Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2024-12-31
Turnover	£28.41M
Gross profit	£1.79M
Operating profit	£254.9k
Profit before tax	£251.9k
Average employees	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

filings

• 2 officers

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (58 events)Click to expand

2026-01-19
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officers · AP01
2026-01-19
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officers · AP01
2026-01-15
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BREEN, Sean appointed
director
2026-01-15
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HANCOCK, Samuel appointed
director
2025-09-30
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accounts · AA
2024-10-23
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accounts-with-accounts-type-medium
accounts · AA
2023-08-22
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2022-10-01
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2021-10-08
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2021-06-16
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mortgage · MR01
2021-06-10
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Charge registered #10
Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
2021-05-20
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accounts · AA
2021-03-29
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mortgage · MR01
2021-03-25
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Charge registered #9
Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
2020-06-08
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officers · CH01
2020-06-08
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change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2020-06-08
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2020-01-28
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accounts · AA01
2019-06-10
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accounts · AA
2019-01-23
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capital · SH08
2019-01-23
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capital · SH10
2018-08-14
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Charge satisfied #8
2017-01-23
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BROWNE, Niall appointed
director
2017-01-23
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WALSH, Patrick Martin appointed
director
2015-10-01
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MEAR, Clifford Frederick resigned
director
2014-06-05
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Charge satisfied #6
2014-06-05
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Charge satisfied #5
2014-06-05
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Charge satisfied #4
2014-06-05
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Charge satisfied #3
2014-06-05
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Charge satisfied #2
2013-09-19
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HANCOCK, Gary appointed
secretary
2013-09-19
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HANCOCK, Jayne resigned
secretary
2007-04-27
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Charge registered #8
Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
2007-04-18
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Charge satisfied #1
2007-01-16
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Charge satisfied #7
2004-09-30
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DAWSON, Marie Margaret resigned
secretary
2004-09-30
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HANCOCK, Jayne appointed
secretary
2004-07-21
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Charge registered #7
Lender: Hsbc Invoice Finance (UK) LTD (the Security Holder)
2004-05-28
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HANCOCK, Jayne appointed
director
2004-05-28
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DAWSON, Marie Margaret resigned
director
2004-05-28
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HUGHES, Andrew Micheal resigned
director
2004-05-28
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HUGHES, David Aubrey resigned
director
2004-05-28
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MEAR, Clifford Frederick appointed
director
2003-09-08
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HANCOCK, Gary appointed
director
2003-05-15
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HUGHES, Alan Joseph resigned
director
2001-01-09
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DAWSON, Marie Margaret appointed
secretary
2001-01-09
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POSKITT, Eileen Marjorie resigned
secretary
2001-01-09
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POSKITT, Eileen Marjorie resigned
director
1996-05-30
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SMITH, Roger David resigned
director
1996-05-01
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DAWSON, Marie Margaret appointed
director

Showing most recent 50 of 58 events

Owner dependency

73/100

High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS

-6 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 23 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 68 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

70/100

Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 68. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 23 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
supportingClean filings + long tenure: Disciplined long-tenure operator — classic lifestyle-business pattern that often sells quietly.

Red flags

1 med ·

Charge satisfaction-then-recreation pattern

medium

Multiple instances where a charge was satisfied and a new charge created within 6 months. Suggests active refinancing cycle.

Group structure

Lincoln Proteins Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Lincoln Proteins Limited

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares

ultimate parent

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A HUGHES AND SON(SKELLINGTHORPE)LIMITED

This company · 00549113

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

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Lincoln Proteins Limited Corporate entity	75–100%	75–100%	sig. influence75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · significant influence · firm interest	06/04/2016

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

🔒Co-director network graph

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

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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

Incorporated1955-05-12

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC10110 — Processing and preserving of meat

Registered office

Windsor House

A1 Business Park At

Long Bennington

Nottinghamshire

NG23 5JR

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-09-30

Last made up to: 2024-12-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-05-02

Last: 2025-04-18