RIVER DOON TROUT COMPANY LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC071247 · ltd · incorporated 1980-04-18

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 44.5y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Apr 2025

Net worth

£248.2k

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 03220

Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 89-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 89). 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 44.5y

65/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 44.5 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: 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

Lenders & charges

1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)

Directors & officers

3 officers (3 active, 3 linked, 2 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared

Director network

Network not yet resolved

Filing history

95 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

80/100Exceptional

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 £248,203

Net assets shrinking

Down £15,122 YoY

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

£248k

↓ 5.7% YoY

Current Assets

£63k

↓ 32% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-04-30	2024-04-30
Total assets	£248.7k	£263.8k
Current assets	£62.5k	£92.4k
Net assets	£248.2k	£263.3k

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

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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

filings

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (17 events)Click to expand

2026-01-29
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2025-01-28
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2025-01-23
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address · AD01
2024-04-26
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2023-04-27
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2022-04-26
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2021-03-31
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2020-01-30
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2019-01-24
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2018-01-29
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2017-01-30
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2016-02-05
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2016-02-02
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2015-01-27
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1981-10-29
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
1980-04-18
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Company incorporated
As RIVER DOON TROUT COMPANY LIMITED

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

+Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 89 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

76/100

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 89 years old. Natural succession window is now.
secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 46 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.

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

2 active beneficial owners

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr David Edward Ronchetti Individual · British · DOB 10/1937 · age 89	50–75%	50–75%	50-75% shares · 50-75% voting	06/04/2016
Mr Henry John Ronchetti Simpson Individual · British · DOB 03/1953 · age 73	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

Incorporated1980-04-18

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC03220 — SIC 03220

Registered office

Doonbrae Cassillis Mill

Dalrymple

Ayr

KA6 6BD

Scotland

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-01-31

Last made up to: 2025-04-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-01-14

Last: 2025-12-31

Officers (3 active · 0 resigned)

RONCHETTI, David Edward→

secretary

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RONCHETTI, David Edward→

director · ~89y

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Active

RONCHETTI SIMPSON, Henry John→

director · ~73y

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown

			Type	Properties
	outstanding	Barclays Barclays Bank PLC	Standard security	1 property	29/10/1981	—

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Recent filings (95 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2026-01-30

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity

accounts · AA

2026-01-29

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity

accounts · AA

2025-01-28

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2025-01-23

change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address

address · AD01

2025-01-23

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity

accounts · AA

2024-04-26

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2024-01-05

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2023-04-27

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2023-01-05

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2022-04-26

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2022-01-17

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2021-03-31

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2021-01-26

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2020-01-30

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2020-01-23