RAHON ENTERPRISES LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
NI025935 · ltd · incorporated 1991-09-27
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 32.7y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
£25.47M
year to Dec 2024
Net worth
—
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Unlicenced restaurants and cafes
Sector: Accommodation & food service
Investor take
Pursue
Conservative operator with a 70-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (93/100, director aged 70). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (78/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · oldest 32.7y

85/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 32.7 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, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
3 officers (3 active, 3 linked, 2 with DOB)
83
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
92 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

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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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102
Profitable
Profit before tax £1,288,817
Turnover YoY
+2%
Year on year

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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£0£0£0£0£0£0Dec 2023Dec 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-12-312023-12-31
Turnover£25.47M£25.09M
Gross profit£17.35M£16.73M
Operating profit£1.32M£1.49M
Profit before tax£1.29M£1.39M
Average employees140600140300

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

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4 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
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
4
filings
  • • 2 gazette
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-12-17
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    gazette-filings-brought-up-to-date
    gazette · DISS40
  3. 2025-12-16
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    gazette-notice-compulsory
    gazette · GAZ1
  4. 2025-01-15
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  5. 2024-12-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2023-09-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2022-09-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2021-12-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2020-12-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2019-10-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2018-10-03
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2018-02-19
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    memorandum-articles
    incorporation · MA
  13. 2018-02-19
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    resolution
    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  14. 2017-09-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  15. 2016-10-06
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-medium
    accounts · AA
  16. 2012-10-29
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    Charge satisfied #2
  17. 2012-10-29
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    Charge satisfied #1
  18. 1993-11-03
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Allied Irish Banks PLC
  19. 1993-09-13
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Allied Irish Banks PLC
  20. 1991-09-27
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    Company incorporated
    As RAHON ENTERPRISES LIMITED
  21. 1991-09-27
    ➕
    LAMPH, Bernadette Theresa Anne appointed
    secretary
  22. 1991-09-27
    ➕
    LAMPH, Bernadette Theresa Anne appointed
    director
  23. 1991-09-27
    ➕
    LAMPH, Desmond Thomas appointed
    director

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 35 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 70 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

96/100
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 70 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 35 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 35 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 Desmond Lamph
Individual · Northern Irish · DOB 09/1956 · age 70
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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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1991-09-27
Jurisdictionnorthern-ireland
Primary SIC56102 — Unlicenced restaurants and cafes

Registered office

Bloomfield Shopping Centre
South Circular Road
Bangor
BT19 7HB
Northern Ireland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-10-11
Last: 2025-09-27

Officers (3 active · 0 resigned)

LAMPH, Bernadette Theresa Anne→
secretary · appointed 1991-09-27
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Active
LAMPH, Bernadette Theresa Anne→
director · ~70y · appointed 1991-09-27
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Active
LAMPH, Desmond Thomas→
director · ~70y · appointed 1991-09-27
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Active

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
0
Outstanding
0
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
satisfied
Allied Irish Banks
Allied Irish Banks PLC
Mortgage debenture1 property03/11/199329/10/2012
satisfied
Allied Irish Banks
Allied Irish Banks PLC
Assignment of life policy1 property13/09/199329/10/2012

Recent filings (92 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-22
gazette-filings-brought-up-to-date
gazette · DISS40
2025-12-17
gazette-notice-compulsory
gazette · GAZ1
2025-12-16
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-12-12
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2025-01-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-11-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-10-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-09-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-10-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2022-09-29
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2021-12-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-09-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2020-12-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-10-09