N L HARSHAW LTD

🌳Matureactive

NI630066 · ltd · incorporated 2015-03-18

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.

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

£636.5k

year to Mar 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

78/100

Strong

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 01460

Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing

Investor take

Pursue

Conservative operator with a 71-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 78/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 71). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (85/100).

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

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

2 officers (2 active, 2 linked, 2 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

1 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

27 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

🔒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

78/100Strong

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102

Profitable

Profit before tax £101,605

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Turnover	£636.5k	—
Gross profit	£203.1k	—
Profit before tax	£101.6k	—
Average employees	400	400

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (17 events)Click to expand

2025-12-22
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-20
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accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-12-22
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accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-01-18
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accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2022-01-18
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accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2021-01-30
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accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2019-10-22
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accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2019-09-09
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capital · SH01
2019-09-02
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notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2019-09-02
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capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2019-09-02
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notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2018-12-18
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accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2017-12-19
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accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2016-12-15
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
accounts · AA
2015-03-18
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Company incorporated
As N L HARSHAW LTD
2015-03-18
➕
HARSHAW, Hugh Leonard appointed
director
2015-03-18
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HARSHAW, Noel Leonard William appointed
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

+Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
+Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "HARSHAW" — strong identity link between founder and business.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 71 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.
+No director turnover: Company is 11 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.

Succession & seller-readiness

71/100

Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 71 years old. Natural succession window is now.
secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
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

4 active beneficial owners · fragmented

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mrs Valerie Elaine Harshaw Individual · British · DOB 11/1979 · age 47	25–50%	25–50%	board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control	02/09/2019
Mr Grace Harshaw Individual · British · DOB 07/1961 · age 65	25–50%	25–50%	board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control	02/09/2019
Mr Hugh Leonard Harshaw Individual · Northern Irish · DOB 06/1955 · age 71	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	06/04/2016
Mr Noel Leonard William Harshaw Individual · Northern Irish · DOB 07/1983 · age 43	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	06/04/2016

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

Incorporated2015-03-18

Jurisdictionnorthern-ireland

Primary SIC01460 — SIC 01460

Registered office

13 Annaghbane Road Loughbrickland

Banbridge

Co. Down

BT32 3NU

Northern Ireland

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-04-01

Last: 2026-03-18

Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)

HARSHAW, Hugh Leonard→

director · ~71y · appointed 2015-03-18

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HARSHAW, Noel Leonard William→

director · ~43y · appointed 2015-03-18

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