LINDERTIS FARMS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC188304 · ltd · incorporated 1998-08-06
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.
Why now
Window steady · low confidence
Steady and tidy — no seller pressure yet. Approach only if an angle opens.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 15.9y old — refinance window within 12 months
What changed my view
Last 30 days

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Last 90 days

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Turnover
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year to Jul 2025
Net worth
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Opportunity
82/100
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
  • 01250SIC 01250
  • 01500SIC 01500
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 68-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 68). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 15.9y

65/100
clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

  • · Oldest live charge is 15.9 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (79/100)

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
75
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 3 with DOB)
82
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
3 connected companies via shared directors
54
Filing history
79 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£0Jul 2024Jul 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-07-312024-07-31
Average employees500500

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
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-04-02
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-04-14
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  3. 2024-01-04
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  4. 2023-06-06
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    accounts-amended-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AAMD
  5. 2023-04-12
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2022-08-30
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  7. 2022-08-30
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC09
  8. 2022-04-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2021-04-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2020-04-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2019-04-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2018-04-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2018-04-06
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  14. 2017-05-08
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    accounts · AA
  15. 2016-05-03
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  16. 2010-06-21
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Bank of Scotland PLC
  17. 2001-05-15
    ➕
    COLYTON, Philippa Jane, Lady appointed
    secretary
  18. 2001-05-15
    ➖
    THORNTONS WS resigned
    corporate-secretary
  19. 1999-11-24
    ➕
    COLYTON, Alisdair John Munro, Lord appointed
    director
  20. 1999-11-24
    ➕
    HOPKINSON, Philippa Jane, Lady Colyton appointed
    director
  21. 1999-11-24
    ➖
    HUTCHESON, Iain Henderson resigned
    director
  22. 1998-08-06
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    Company incorporated
    As LINDERTIS FARMS LIMITED
  23. 1998-08-06
    ➕
    THORNTONS WS appointed
    corporate-secretary
  24. 1998-08-06
    ➕
    HUTCHESON, Iain Henderson 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
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 27 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 68 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

86/100
Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 68. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 27 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 28 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
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Lord Alisdair John Munro Colyton
Individual · British · DOB 05/1958 · age 68
50–75%
—50-75% shares06/04/2016

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
Incorporated1998-08-06
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC01110 — Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds

Registered office

Drumleys
Lindertis
Kirriemuir
Angus
DD8 5NU

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-04-30
Last made up to: 2025-07-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-08-10
Last: 2025-07-27

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

COLYTON, Philippa Jane, Lady→
secretary · appointed 2001-05-15
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Active
COLYTON, Alisdair John Munro, Lord→
director · ~68y · appointed 1999-11-24
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Active
HOPKINSON, Philippa Jane, Lady Colyton→
director · ~66y · appointed 1999-11-24
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Active
THORNTONS WS→
corporate-secretary · appointed 1998-08-06 · resigned 2001-05-15
Resigned
HUTCHESON, Iain Henderson→
director · ~64y · appointed 1998-08-06 · resigned 1999-11-24
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
Bank of Scotland PLC
Bond & floating charge1 property21/06/2010—
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Recent filings (79 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-04-02
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-08-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-04-14
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-08-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-01-04
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-08-09
accounts-amended-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AAMD
2023-06-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-04-12
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-08-30
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-08-30
withdrawal-of-a-person-with-significant-control-statement
persons-with-significant-control · PSC09
2022-08-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-04-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-08-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-04-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-08-15