ANGUS GROWERS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC234071 · private-limited-guarant-nsc · incorporated 2002-07-12

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.

Opportunity decay

approaching window · 12-months

Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.

· Oldest live charge 10.1y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Dec 2024

Net worth

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book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 01250

Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing

ALSO REGISTERED FOR

01610Support activities for crop production
01630Post-harvest crop activities

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 80-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 80). 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 10.1y

85/100

ready

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

· Oldest live charge is 10.1 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 20/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (71/100)

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

1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)

Directors & officers

22 officers (8 active, 22 linked, 16 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)

Director network

2 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

93 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

83/100Exceptional

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.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

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Net Worth

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Current Assets

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Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2024-12-31	2023-12-31
Profit before tax	—	£-248.8k
Average employees	1500	700

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

3 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 (56 events)Click to expand

2025-11-06
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officers · AP01
2025-11-06
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officers · TM01
2025-10-29
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ARNOT, Jamie Graham appointed
director
2025-10-29
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MARSHALL, Jennifer Elizabeth Jane resigned
director
2025-06-09
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accounts · AA
2024-09-27
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-05
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officers · AP01
2023-12-05
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2023-11-23
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GRAY, Andrew James resigned
director
2023-11-23
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MARSHALL, Jennifer Elizabeth Jane appointed
director
2023-09-27
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accounts · AA
2022-11-24
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officers · AP01
2022-11-24
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officers · TM01
2022-11-17
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WARDEN, David Richard appointed
director
2022-11-17
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MARSHALL, Rowan Alexander resigned
director
2022-08-04
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accounts · AA
2021-10-27
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2020-12-02
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officers · AP01
2020-12-02
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2020-11-12
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PORTER, David Alston appointed
director
2020-11-12
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LANG, John Mitchell resigned
director
2020-10-19
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2019-11-21
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officers · AP01
2019-11-20
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officers · TM01
2019-11-14
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ADAMSON, Ailsa Meiklem appointed
director
2019-11-14
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STOCKWELL, Timothy Richard Michael resigned
director
2019-08-02
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2018-10-25
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PORCHEZ, Angela Irene appointed
secretary
2018-10-25
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officers · AP03
2018-09-24
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HOUSTOUN, William Robert resigned
secretary
2016-03-11
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Bank of Scotland PLC
2015-08-25
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MARSHALL, Rowan Alexander appointed
director
2015-04-27
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NEILSON, James resigned
director
2014-02-25
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GRAY, Andrew James appointed
director
2014-02-25
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LAIRD, John Porter resigned
director
2013-09-18
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PERROTT, Edward Frank Vivian appointed
director
2013-08-06
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HOUSTOUN, William Robert appointed
secretary
2013-08-06
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PATTISON, Helen resigned
secretary
2013-04-30
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NEILSON, James appointed
director
2012-12-10
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FORBES, Michael Bartow resigned
director
2009-09-17
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STEPHEN, David Gordon appointed
director
2009-09-17
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GRAY, James Alexander Gordon resigned
secretary
2009-09-17
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PATTISON, Helen appointed
secretary
2009-09-17
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GRAY, James Alexander Gordon resigned
director
2009-09-17
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LANG, John Mitchell appointed
director
2009-09-17
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STOCKWELL, Timothy Richard Michael appointed
director
2002-08-10
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LAIRD, John Porter appointed
director
2002-08-08
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GRAY, James Alexander Gordon appointed
secretary
2002-08-08
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MESSRS THORNTONS WS resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
2002-08-08
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FORBES, Michael Bartow appointed
director

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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

-7 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 24 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 80 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

80/100

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 80 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 24 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

clean

No red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)

🔒Co-director network graph

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

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeprivate-limited-guarant-nsc

Incorporated2002-07-12

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC01250 — SIC 01250

Registered office

Kirkton Enterprise Centre Sir William Smith Road

Kirkton Industrial Estate

Arbroath

Angus

DD11 3RD

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-09-30

Last made up to: 2024-12-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-07-18

Last: 2025-07-04