FARR END ENTERPRISES LTD.

🌳Matureactive
SC299366 · ltd · incorporated 2006-03-22
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 19.6y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Aug 2024
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Other retail sale of food in specialised stores
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 66-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 66). 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 19.6y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 19.6 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, 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
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)
78
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
50 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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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Aug 2023Aug 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-08-312023-08-31
Average employees200200

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-05-28
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  2. 2024-05-23
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  3. 2023-05-30
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  4. 2022-06-29
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  5. 2020-12-10
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  6. 2020-09-01
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  7. 2019-05-10
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  8. 2018-06-04
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  9. 2017-06-09
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  10. 2016-05-31
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  11. 2016-04-05
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  12. 2015-05-30
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  13. 2015-04-14
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  14. 2014-06-02
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  15. 2014-04-10
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  16. 2006-09-25
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
  17. 2006-05-18
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    CRAIG, Colin James appointed
    secretary
  18. 2006-05-18
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    CRAIG, Colin James appointed
    director
  19. 2006-05-18
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    CRAIG, Sandie Jane appointed
    director
  20. 2006-05-18
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    MORTON FRASER SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
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  21. 2006-05-18
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    MORTON FRASER DIRECTORS LIMITED resigned
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  22. 2006-03-22
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    Company incorporated
    As FARR END ENTERPRISES LTD.
  23. 2006-03-22
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    MORTON FRASER SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  24. 2006-03-22
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    MORTON FRASER DIRECTORS LIMITED appointed
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Owner dependency

91/100
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 20 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 66 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

79/100
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 66. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 20 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 20 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
Mr Colin James Craig
Individual · British · DOB 07/1960 · age 66
25–50%
25–50%board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control06/04/2016
Mrs Sandie Jane Craig
Individual · British · DOB 11/1961 · age 65
25–50%
25–50%board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control06/04/2016

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
Incorporated2006-03-22
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC47290 — Other retail sale of food in specialised stores

Registered office

The Farr End
Culduthel Road
Inverness
Invernesshire
IV2 4BH

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-05-31
Last made up to: 2024-08-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-05
Last: 2026-03-22

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

CRAIG, Colin James→
secretary · appointed 2006-05-18
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Active
CRAIG, Colin James→
director · ~66y · appointed 2006-05-18
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Active
CRAIG, Sandie Jane→
director · ~65y · appointed 2006-05-18
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Active
MORTON FRASER SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2006-03-22 · resigned 2006-05-18
Resigned
MORTON FRASER DIRECTORS LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2006-03-22 · resigned 2006-05-18
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
The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
Bond & floating charge1 property25/09/2006—
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Recent filings (50 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-05-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-05-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-05-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-04-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-06-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-04-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-05-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-12-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-09-01
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-04-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-05-10
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-04-05