DUNNYDEER FARMS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC022097 · ltd · incorporated 1942-06-15

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

—

year to Apr 2025

Net worth

£3.28M

book net assets

Opportunity

81/100

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

ALSO REGISTERED FOR

01410SIC 01410
01450SIC 01450

Investor take

Pursue

Asset-holding vehicle with a 70-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. 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).

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

2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

9 officers (5 active, 9 linked, 6 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

0 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared

Director network

Network not yet resolved

Filing history

115 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

81/100Exceptional

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

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared

Positive net assets

Net assets £3,283,754

Net assets shrinking

Down £270,723 YoY

Cash YoY

-3%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£1.9m

↓ 3.2% YoY

Net Worth

£3.3m

↓ 7.6% YoY

Current Assets

£1.9m

↓ 3.4% YoY

Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-04-05	2024-04-05
Total assets	£3.53M	£3.84M
Current assets	£1.92M	£1.99M
Cash	£1.87M	£1.93M
Debtors	£48.1k	£53.7k
Net assets	£3.28M	£3.55M

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

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 accounts
• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand

2026-04-04
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accounts · AA
2025-04-04
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accounts · AA
2023-12-22
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accounts · AA
2023-10-04
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officers · CH01
2023-10-04
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC08
2023-10-04
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2022-12-28
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accounts · AA
2022-10-07
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officers · AP01
2022-09-09
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officers · TM01
2021-11-28
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MACKIE, Gillian Margaret appointed
director
2021-10-27
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accounts · AA
2021-03-29
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MACKIE, Norma Phyllis resigned
director
2020-09-18
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accounts · AA
2019-11-27
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2018-09-13
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2018-02-19
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2018-02-19
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2018-02-19
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2012-06-25
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PETERKINS SERVICES LIMITED appointed
corporate-secretary
2012-02-08
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LEDINGHAM CHALMERS LLP resigned
corporate-secretary
2007-07-28
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LEDINGHAM CHALMERS LLP appointed
corporate-secretary
2007-07-28
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PAULL & WILLIAMSONS resigned
corporate-secretary
2006-11-27
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MURRAY, Claire Julia appointed
director
2001-06-26
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MACKIE, James Williams resigned
director
1942-06-15
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Company incorporated
As DUNNYDEER FARMS LIMITED

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

-4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 19 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 70 — 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 70 years old. Natural succession window is now.
secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 19 years.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 84 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

Incorporated1942-06-15

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC01110 — Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds

Registered office

Farmhouse, Mains Of Dunnydeer

Insch

Aberdeenshire

AB52 6LN

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-01-05

Last made up to: 2025-04-05

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-12-21

Last: 2025-12-07