R.P.B. PRESSEN HILL LTD.

🌳Matureactive

03312014 · ltd · incorporated 1997-02-03

Investment thesis

Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.

Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.

Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.

Opportunity decay

approaching window · 12-months

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

· Oldest live charge 29.0y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Jul 2025

Net worth

£1.41M

book net assets

Opportunity

83/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 01470

Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 86-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 86). 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 29.0y

65/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 29.0 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: high (80/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile

address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date

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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

8 officers (5 active, 8 linked, 5 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 4 total, 4 with control declared

Director network

3 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

94 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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared

Positive net assets

Net assets £1,413,280

Net assets shrinking

Down £156,095 YoY

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

£1.4m

↓ 9.9% YoY

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-07-30	2024-07-30
Total assets	£2.50M	£3.28M
Debtors	£1.06M	£742.7k
Net assets	£1.41M	£1.57M

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

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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

filings

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filings

• 3 officers
• 1 accounts
• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (31 events)Click to expand

2026-04-29
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officers · CH01
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accounts · AA
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accounts · AA
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accounts · AA
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officers · AP01
2019-11-13
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ROBSON, Alastair Laurence appointed
director
2019-11-13
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ROBSON, William Mark appointed
director
2013-07-10
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ROBSON, Mark resigned
director
1997-05-20
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Charge registered #1
Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
1997-02-03
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Company incorporated
As R.P.B. PRESSEN HILL LTD.
1997-02-03
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ROBSON, Judith Ann appointed
secretary
1997-02-03
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ROBSON, Judith Ann appointed
director
1997-02-03
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ROBSON, Mark Laurence appointed
director
1997-02-03
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YORK PLACE COMPANY SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
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1997-02-03
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YORK PLACE COMPANY SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
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1997-02-03
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ROBSON, Mark appointed
director
1997-02-03
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YORK PLACE COMPANY NOMINEES LIMITED appointed
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1997-02-03
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YORK PLACE COMPANY NOMINEES LIMITED resigned
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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

-4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 29 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 86 — 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 86 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 29 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 29 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%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Mark Laurence Robson Individual · British · DOB 10/1966 · age 60	—	75–100%	board control75-100% voting · board control	06/04/2016

3 historic (ceased) PSCs

Mrs Judith Ann Robsonceased 28/10/2024· 25-50% voting
Katherine Clair Gubbinsceased 06/04/2016· 25-50% shares
Tessa Jane Robsonceased 06/04/2016· 25-50% shares

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

Incorporated1997-02-03

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC01470 — SIC 01470

Registered office

Pressen Hill

Kelso

Roxburghshire

TD5 8BW

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-04-30

Last made up to: 2025-07-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-02-17

Last: 2026-02-03