HI-PERFORMANCE FEEDS LIMITED

💤Zombieactive
03091202 · ltd · incorporated 1995-08-15
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
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 46210
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 68-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 68). 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).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (77/100)

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
5 officers (2 active, 5 linked, 1 with DOB)
74
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
73 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
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
90
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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£0£0£0£0£0£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Average employees200200

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

1 signal 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
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Last 90 days
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Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-12-19
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    accounts · AA
  3. 2023-11-06
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2022-12-14
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2021-12-07
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2021-09-07
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  7. 2021-09-07
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  8. 2021-09-06
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  9. 2021-09-06
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  10. 2020-09-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2019-09-24
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    accounts · AA
  12. 2018-12-17
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    accounts · AA
  13. 2017-09-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2016-11-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  15. 2015-12-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  16. 2005-08-26
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    YOUNG, Grace appointed
    secretary
  17. 2005-08-20
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    ROBINSON, Yvonne Louise resigned
    secretary
  18. 1995-08-15
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    Company incorporated
    As HI-PERFORMANCE FEEDS LIMITED
  19. 1995-08-15
    ➕
    ROBINSON, Peter appointed
    director
  20. 1995-08-15
    ➕
    ROBINSON, Yvonne Louise appointed
    secretary
  21. 1995-08-15
    ➕
    JL NOMINEES TWO LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  22. 1995-08-15
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    JL NOMINEES TWO LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  23. 1995-08-15
    ➕
    JL NOMINEES ONE LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  24. 1995-08-15
    ➖
    JL NOMINEES ONE LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-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 31 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 68 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

95/100
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.
  • primarySole active director: Only one director in control. No visible successor — buyers solve the succession problem.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 31 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 31 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 Peter Robinson
Individual · British · DOB 05/1958 · age 68
75–100%
—75-100% shares06/04/2016

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

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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
Incorporated1995-08-15
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC46210 — SIC 46210

Registered office

Lakeside House
Lizards Farm
Lanchester
Durham
DH7 0RE
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-08-29
Last: 2025-08-15

Officers (2 active · 3 resigned)

YOUNG, Grace→
secretary · appointed 2005-08-26
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Active
ROBINSON, Peter→
director · ~68y · appointed 1995-08-15
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Active
ROBINSON, Yvonne Louise→
secretary · appointed 1995-08-15 · resigned 2005-08-20
Resigned
JL NOMINEES TWO LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1995-08-15 · resigned 1995-08-15
Resigned
JL NOMINEES ONE LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 1995-08-15 · resigned 1995-08-15
Resigned

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Recent filings (73 total)

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accounts · AA
2025-12-17
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-09-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-12-19
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-09-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-11-06
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-09-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-14
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-09-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-12-07
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-09-07
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2021-09-07
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2021-09-07
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2021-09-06
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2021-09-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-09-11