D.C. AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS LIMITED

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SC215245 · ltd · incorporated 2001-01-30
Investment thesis
Zombie company — trading but stalled; unlikely mover.
Why interesting: Quiet, steady; could be a succession or carve-out candidate with the right conversation.
Why risky: No growth signal; thin margin for error on price.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£13.2k
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Activities of agricultural holding companies
Sector: Financial & insurance
Investor take
Pursue
Asset-holding vehicle with a 71-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 71). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Broaden director team. Sole director creates succession risk and reduces buyer comfort. Appoint a second director or strong #2. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 24.4y

45/100
under pressure

Refinance would be pressure-driven, not opportunity-driven. Expect tighter margins and covenant scrutiny.

  • · Oldest live charge is 24.4 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Distress signals active — lender appetite narrows.

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, 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
6 officers (1 active, 6 linked, 4 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
89 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
🔒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
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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £13,208
Net assets shrinking
Down £711 YoY
Cash YoY
+40%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£222
↑ 40% YoY
Net Worth
£13k
↓ 5.1% YoY
Current Assets
£18k
↓ 3.5% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
£0£4k£7k£11k£15k£18kMar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Total assets£13.2k£13.9k
Current assets£17.5k£18.2k
Cash£222£159
Debtors£17.3k£18.0k
Net assets£13.2k£13.9k

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (29 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-11-11
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  2. 2024-12-18
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  3. 2023-12-22
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    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-03-30
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
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  5. 2023-03-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2023-03-02
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  7. 2023-02-17
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  8. 2022-02-03
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  9. 2022-02-03
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  10. 2021-12-21
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  11. 2021-01-11
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    accounts · AA
  12. 2020-11-18
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  13. 2020-11-18
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  14. 2019-12-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  15. 2018-12-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  16. 2008-11-24
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    Charge satisfied #1
  17. 2008-02-22
    ➖
    YOUNG, Kathleen Rose resigned
    secretary
  18. 2004-01-01
    ➕
    YOUNG, Kathleen Rose appointed
    secretary
  19. 2004-01-01
    ➖
    ANDERSON STRATHERN WS resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  20. 2003-05-30
    ➖
    GRAY, Nelson Campbell resigned
    director
  21. 2001-11-16
    ➕
    CURRIE, Douglas James Thomas appointed
    director
  22. 2001-11-16
    ➖
    BROWN, Simon Thomas David resigned
    director
  23. 2001-11-16
    ➕
    GRAY, Nelson Campbell appointed
    director
  24. 2001-11-16
    ➖
    KERR, John Neilson resigned
    director
  25. 2001-11-16
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Lloyds Tsb Scotland PLC
  26. 2001-01-30
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    Company incorporated
    As D.C. AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS LIMITED
  27. 2001-01-30
    ➕
    ANDERSON STRATHERN WS appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  28. 2001-01-30
    ➕
    BROWN, Simon Thomas David appointed
    director
  29. 2001-01-30
    ➕
    KERR, John Neilson appointed
    director

Owner dependency

100/100
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
  • +Sole director: Only one active director — all governance concentrated on one person.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 24 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 71 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

100/100
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 71 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • primarySole active director: Only one director in control. No visible successor — buyers solve the succession problem.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 24 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 25 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 · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Douglas James Thomas Currie
Individual · British · DOB 03/1955 · age 71
75–100%
75–100%75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · firm interest06/04/2016
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Mrs Anne Isobel Knoxceased 10/03/2020· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting

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

🔒Co-director network graph

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🔒Tailored diligence questions

8 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2001-01-30
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC64201 — Activities of agricultural holding companies

Registered office

4 Gosford Park
Aberlady
Longniddry
EH32 0DD
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-16
Last: 2026-03-02

Officers (1 active · 5 resigned)

CURRIE, Douglas James Thomas→
director · ~71y · appointed 2001-11-16
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
YOUNG, Kathleen Rose→
secretary · appointed 2004-01-01 · resigned 2008-02-22
Resigned
ANDERSON STRATHERN WS→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2001-01-30 · resigned 2004-01-01
Resigned
BROWN, Simon Thomas David→
director · ~66y · appointed 2001-01-30 · resigned 2001-11-16
Resigned
GRAY, Nelson Campbell→
director · ~68y · appointed 2001-11-16 · resigned 2003-05-30
Resigned
KERR, John Neilson→
director · ~70y · appointed 2001-01-30 · resigned 2001-11-16
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
0
Outstanding
0
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
satisfied
Lloyds Banking Group
Lloyds Tsb Scotland PLC
Bond & floating charge1 property16/11/200124/11/2008

Recent filings (89 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-11-11
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-22
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-03-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-03-21
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-02
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-03-02
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2023-02-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-02-13
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-02-03
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2022-02-03
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2022-02-03