FRASER C ROBB LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC506575 · ltd · incorporated 2015-05-22

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 8.3y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Mar 2025

Net worth

£234.8k

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 33190

Sector: Manufacturing

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 82-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 82). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 8.3y

85/100

ready

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

· Oldest live charge is 8.3 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

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

5 officers (5 active, 5 linked, 4 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

3 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

31 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 £234,755

Cash YoY

-3%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£71k

↓ 2.8% YoY

Net Worth

£235k

↑ 21% YoY

Current Assets

£1.3m

↑ 51% YoY

Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Total assets	£628.4k	£306.5k
Current assets	£1.33M	£880.7k
Cash	£71.3k	£73.4k
Debtors	£715.7k	£521.2k
Net assets	£234.8k	£193.6k

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

filing

• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand

2025-12-19
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-06-27
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-06-27
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-03-31
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-03-25
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-03-30
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-03-02
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gazette · DISS40
2022-03-01
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gazette · GAZ1
2022-02-28
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accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2020-11-23
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accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2020-11-19
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change-account-reference-date-company-current-extended
accounts · AA01
2019-08-28
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accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2018-12-05
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change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2018-09-20
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2018-01-18
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mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2018-01-10
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Bank of Scotland PLC
2017-06-23
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
accounts · AA
2015-10-12
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ROBB, Kathleen Margaret appointed
director
2015-05-22
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Company incorporated
As FRASER C ROBB LIMITED
2015-05-22
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ROBB, Lorna appointed
secretary
2015-05-22
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ROBB, Fraser appointed
director
2015-05-22
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ROBB, Lorna appointed
director
2015-05-22
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ROBB, Struan appointed
director

Owner dependency

78/100

High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS

-4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "ROBB" — strong identity link between founder and business.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 82 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

65/100

Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 82 years old. Natural succession window is now.
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 Lorna Robb Individual · British · DOB 09/1972 · age 54	25–50%	—	25-50% shares	06/04/2016
Mr Fraser Robb Individual · Scottish · DOB 03/1944 · age 82	25–50%	—	25-50% shares	06/04/2016
Mr Struan Robb Individual · Scottish · DOB 11/1970 · age 56	25–50%	—	25-50% shares	06/04/2016
Mrs Kathleen Margaret Robb Individual · British · DOB 06/1945 · age 81	—	—	sig. influencesignificant influence	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

Incorporated2015-05-22

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC33190 — SIC 33190

Registered office

Fraser C Robb Stirling Road

Drymen

Glasgow

G63 0AA

Scotland

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-06-05

Last: 2025-05-22