PORTA-FILL INTERNATIONAL LIMITED

📉Decliningactive
NI027400 · ltd · incorporated 1993-04-06
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
drifting distress · 6-months
Drifting toward distress — expect more negotiability in 3–6 months, but also more friction.
  • · Lifecycle stage drifting downward
  • · Currently "declining"
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Turnover
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Net worth
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Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 28923
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Conservative operator with a 77-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (73/100, director aged 77). 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 10.6y

85/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 10.6 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
7 officers (4 active, 7 linked, 5 with DOB)
84
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
100 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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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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 £245,152

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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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
Profit before tax£245.2k£4.66M
Average employees526900

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

3 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
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (30 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-09-29
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    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-08-27
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  3. 2024-07-19
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  4. 2024-06-04
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  5. 2024-06-03
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  6. 2023-09-27
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    accounts · AA
  7. 2022-08-23
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  8. 2022-08-04
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    mortgage · MR04
  9. 2022-08-04
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    mortgage · MR04
  10. 2022-08-04
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    Charge satisfied #2
  11. 2022-08-04
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    Charge satisfied #1
  12. 2022-02-07
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  13. 2022-01-26
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    RAFFERTY, Malachy appointed
    director
  14. 2021-09-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  15. 2020-10-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  16. 2019-09-26
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    accounts · AA
  17. 2018-11-19
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    mortgage · MR01
  18. 2018-11-15
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Northern Bank Limited
  19. 2018-10-01
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    accounts · AA
  20. 2018-03-26
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    RAFFERTY, Colin John appointed
    director
  21. 2015-10-07
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Northern Bank Limited
  22. 2005-02-01
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    RAFFERTY, Malachy appointed
    secretary
  23. 2005-01-13
    ➕
    RAFFERTY, Dolores appointed
    director
  24. 2005-01-13
    ➖
    RAFFERTY, Desmond Sean resigned
    director
  25. 2005-01-12
    ➖
    RAFFERTY, Frances resigned
    secretary
  26. 2002-05-01
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    RAFFERTY, Dolores resigned
    director
  27. 1993-04-06
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    Company incorporated
    As PORTA-FILL INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
  28. 1993-04-06
    ➕
    RAFFERTY, Frances appointed
    secretary
  29. 1993-04-06
    ➕
    RAFFERTY, Desmond Sean appointed
    director
  30. 1993-04-06
    ➕
    RAFFERTY, Dolores appointed
    director

Owner dependency

83/100
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
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 21 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 77 — 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 77 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 21 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 33 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.)

Group structure

Mjr Holdings Ireland Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Mjr Holdings Ireland Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control
ultimate parent
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PORTA-FILL INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
This company · NI027400

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mjr Holdings Ireland Limited
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control16/01/2023
2 historic (ceased) PSCs
  • Mr Malachy Raffertyceased 16/01/2023· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting
  • Mrs Dolores Raffertyceased 16/01/2023· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting

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

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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
Incorporated1993-04-06
Jurisdictionnorthern-ireland
Primary SIC28923 — SIC 28923

Registered office

Portafill International Killyliss Road
Dungannon Business Park
Dungannon
BT70 1RP
Northern Ireland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-29
Last: 2026-04-15

Officers (4 active · 3 resigned)

RAFFERTY, Malachy→
secretary · appointed 2005-02-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
RAFFERTY, Colin John→
director · ~54y · appointed 2018-03-26
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
RAFFERTY, Dolores→
director · ~75y · appointed 2005-01-13
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
RAFFERTY, Malachy→
director · ~77y · appointed 2022-01-26
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
RAFFERTY, Frances→
secretary · appointed 1993-04-06 · resigned 2005-01-12
Resigned
RAFFERTY, Desmond Sean→
director · ~68y · appointed 1993-04-06 · resigned 2005-01-13
Resigned
RAFFERTY, Dolores→
director · ~75y · appointed 1993-04-06 · resigned 2002-05-01
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
0
Outstanding
0
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
satisfied
Northern Bank
Northern Bank Limited
A registered charge2 properties15/11/201804/08/2022
satisfied
Northern Bank
Northern Bank Limited
A registered charge—07/10/201504/08/2022

Recent filings (100 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2025-09-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2024-08-27
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2024-07-19
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2024-06-04
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2024-06-03
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-09-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-04-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2022-08-23
mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2022-08-04
mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2022-08-04
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-04-05