LARG FARMING COMPANY LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC247253 · ltd · incorporated 2003-04-04
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.
Why now
Window steady · low confidence
Stable recent picture — watch for any upcoming trigger event.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 12.2y old — refinance window within 12 months
What changed my view
Last 30 days

No material changes in the last 30 days.

Last 90 days

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Last 180 days

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Turnover
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year to May 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 01420
Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 01450SIC 01450
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 89-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 89). 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 12.2y

85/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 12.2 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

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, 2 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 (5 active, 6 linked, 4 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
54 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
83/100Exceptional
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
85
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
Cash
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£0£0£0£0£0£0May 2024May 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-05-312024-05-31
Average employees1100

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
3
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 persons-with-significant-control
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-02-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-12-05
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  3. 2025-02-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2024-01-03
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2023-02-07
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2022-02-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2020-09-22
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    accounts · AA
  8. 2019-11-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2018-12-07
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    accounts · AA
  10. 2018-10-17
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    accounts · AA01
  11. 2017-12-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2017-01-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  13. 2016-04-14
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    annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
    annual-return · AR01
  14. 2016-02-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  15. 2015-04-13
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    annual-return · AR01
  16. 2014-03-19
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Clydesdale Bank PLC
  17. 2013-11-01
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    ARCHIBALD, Roy Ferguson appointed
    director
  18. 2003-04-04
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    Company incorporated
    As LARG FARMING COMPANY LIMITED
  19. 2003-04-04
    ➕
    CAMPBELL, Isobel Jardine appointed
    secretary
  20. 2003-04-04
    ➕
    ARCHIBALD, Susan Elizabeth appointed
    director
  21. 2003-04-04
    ➕
    CAMPBELL, Gavin Mcclymont appointed
    director
  22. 2003-04-04
    ➕
    CAMPBELL, Isobel Jardine appointed
    director
  23. 2003-04-04
    ➕
    OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  24. 2003-04-04
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    OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary

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 23 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 89 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

90/100
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 89 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 23 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 23 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

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Miss Catherine Anne Archibald
Individual · British · DOB 04/2000 · age 26
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting05/12/2025
Mrs Susan Elizabeth Archibald
Individual · British · DOB 02/1969 · age 57
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting30/06/2016

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
Incorporated2003-04-04
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC01420 — SIC 01420

Registered office

Blairs House
Creetown
Newton Stewart
DG8 7DE

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-02-28
Last made up to: 2025-05-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-18
Last: 2026-04-04

Officers (5 active · 1 resigned)

CAMPBELL, Isobel Jardine→
secretary · appointed 2003-04-04
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Active
ARCHIBALD, Roy Ferguson→
director · ~58y · appointed 2013-11-01
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Active
ARCHIBALD, Susan Elizabeth→
director · ~57y · appointed 2003-04-04
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Active
CAMPBELL, Gavin Mcclymont→
director · ~89y · appointed 2003-04-04
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Active
CAMPBELL, Isobel Jardine→
director · ~82y · appointed 2003-04-04
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Active
OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2003-04-04 · resigned 2003-04-04
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Virgin Money
Clydesdale Bank PLC
A registered charge1 property19/03/2014—
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Recent filings (54 total)

confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-02-25
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2025-12-05
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-02-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-01-03
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-04-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-02-07
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-04-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-02-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-04-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-09-22
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-04-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-11-26