EAST RESTON LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC260202 · ltd · incorporated 2003-12-03
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 22.4y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£1.51M
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Support activities for crop production
Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 73-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 73). 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 22.4y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 22.4 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 (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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
4 officers (3 active, 4 linked, 2 with DOB)
80
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
54 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
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 · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £1,508,208
Net assets shrinking
Down £3,423 YoY

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
—
Net Worth
£1.5m
~ YoY
Current Assets
£1.9m
↑ 1.1% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
£0£374k£749k£1.1m£1.5m£1.9mMar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Total assets£1.52M£1.52M
Current assets£1.87M£1.85M
Cash—£84.3k
Debtors£1.31M£1.02M
Net assets£1.51M£1.51M

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
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Last 90 days
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Last 180 days
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  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (22 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-24
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  3. 2023-12-21
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  4. 2022-12-23
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  5. 2021-12-23
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  6. 2021-03-23
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  7. 2019-12-20
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  8. 2018-12-20
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  9. 2017-12-20
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  10. 2017-01-03
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  11. 2015-12-29
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  12. 2015-12-17
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  13. 2014-12-23
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  14. 2014-12-05
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  16. 2004-01-14
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  17. 2003-12-03
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    Company incorporated
    As EAST RESTON LIMITED
  18. 2003-12-03
    ➕
    ALLAN, Sarajane appointed
    secretary
  19. 2003-12-03
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    ALLAN, David Robert appointed
    director
  20. 2003-12-03
    ➕
    ALLAN, Sarajane appointed
    director
  21. 2003-12-03
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    OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  22. 2003-12-03
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    OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary

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 23 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 73 — 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 73 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 23 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 23 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

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr David Robert Allan
Individual · British · DOB 12/1953 · age 73
50–75%
—50-75% shares03/12/2016
Mrs Sarajane Allan
Individual · New Zealander · DOB 10/1957 · age 69
25–50%
—25-50% shares03/12/2016

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
Incorporated2003-12-03
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC01610 — Support activities for crop production

Registered office

East Reston
Ayton
Eyemouth
Berwickshire
TD14 5RP

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-12-12
Last: 2025-11-28

Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)

ALLAN, Sarajane→
secretary · appointed 2003-12-03
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Active
ALLAN, David Robert→
director · ~73y · appointed 2003-12-03
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Active
ALLAN, Sarajane→
director · ~69y · appointed 2003-12-03
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Active
OSWALDS OF EDINBURGH LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2003-12-03 · resigned 2003-12-03
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Bond & floating charge1 property14/01/2004—
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Recent filings (54 total)

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2025-12-12
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2024-12-24
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2024-12-09
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2023-12-21
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2023-12-11
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2022-12-23
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2022-12-09
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2021-12-23
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2021-12-10
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2021-03-23
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2020-12-09
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2019-12-20
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2019-11-28
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accounts · AA
2018-12-20