GREENHILL PRODUCE LIMITED

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SC528328 · ltd · incorporated 2016-03-01
Investment thesis
Zombie company — trading but stalled; unlikely mover.
Why interesting: Quiet, steady; could be a succession or carve-out candidate with the right conversation.
Why risky: No growth signal; thin margin for error on price.
Why now
Window steady · low confidence
Steady and stalled — no momentum either way. Needs an approach trigger.
What changed my view
Last 30 days

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Last 90 days

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🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to May 2025
Net worth
£2.42M
book net assets
Opportunity
79/100
Strong
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 10310
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 72-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 79/100 (strong), bankability 67/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 72). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Consolidate lender relationships. 4 distinct lenders creates friction — refinance into single-lender structure for cleaner diligence. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 6.5y

30/100
under pressure

Refinance would be pressure-driven, not opportunity-driven. Expect tighter margins and covenant scrutiny.

  • · Oldest live charge is 6.5 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Distress signals active — lender appetite narrows.

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
75
Lenders & charges
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
3 officers (1 active, 3 linked, 3 with DOB)
90
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
38 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
79/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

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

Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
70
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 £2,420,715
Cash YoY
-3%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£129k
↓ 3.1% YoY
Net Worth
£2.4m
↑ 25% YoY
Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
—
£0£484k£968k£1.5m£1.9m£2.4mMay 2024May 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-05-312024-05-31
Cash£129.0k£133.1k
Net assets£2.42M£1.93M

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
2
filings
  • • 1 address
  • • 1 officers
Last 180 days
3
filings
  • • 1 address
  • • 1 officers
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (27 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-04-09
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  2. 2026-04-09
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  3. 2026-03-31
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    GREENHILL, James Strachan resigned
    director
  4. 2025-10-07
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2024-12-03
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2024-01-05
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    accounts · AA
  7. 2023-02-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2022-05-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2022-02-28
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  10. 2022-02-28
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  11. 2022-02-28
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  12. 2022-02-28
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  13. 2022-02-28
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  14. 2021-05-05
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  15. 2021-05-05
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  16. 2021-02-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  17. 2020-10-02
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    mortgage · MR04
  18. 2020-10-02
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    Charge satisfied #2
  19. 2020-02-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  20. 2020-01-31
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  21. 2020-01-29
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Seagreen Wind Energy Limited
  22. 2019-12-24
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Agricultural Mortgage Corporation PLC
  23. 2017-09-18
    ➖
    GREENHILL, Thomas Balfour Esplin resigned
    director
  24. 2016-03-02
    ➕
    GREENHILL, Alexander Grant Brough appointed
    director
  25. 2016-03-02
    ➕
    GREENHILL, Thomas Balfour Esplin appointed
    director
  26. 2016-03-01
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    Company incorporated
    As GREENHILL PRODUCE LIMITED
  27. 2016-03-01
    ➕
    GREENHILL, James Strachan 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
  • +Sole director: Only one active director — all governance concentrated on one person.
  • +Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "GREENHILL" — strong identity link between founder and business.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 72 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

80/100
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 72 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • primarySole active director: Only one director in control. No visible successor — buyers solve the succession problem.
  • 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
Alexander Grant Brough Greenhill
Individual · British · DOB 06/1954 · age 72
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting31/05/2018
James Strachan Greenhill
Individual · Scottish · DOB 07/1965 · age 61
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016

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

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Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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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
Incorporated2016-03-01
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC10310 — SIC 10310

Registered office

Westhall Farm
Kellas
By Dundee
Angus
DD5 3PD
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-02-28
Last made up to: 2025-05-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-14
Last: 2026-02-28

Officers (1 active · 2 resigned)

GREENHILL, Alexander Grant Brough→
director · ~72y · appointed 2016-03-02
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
GREENHILL, James Strachan→
director · ~61y · appointed 2016-03-01 · resigned 2026-03-31
Resigned
GREENHILL, Thomas Balfour Esplin→
director · ~75y · appointed 2016-03-02 · resigned 2017-09-18
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
satisfied
Seagreen Wind Energy / Seagreen Alpha Wind Energy / Seagreen Bravo Wind Energy
Seagreen Wind Energy Limited / Seagreen Alpha Wind Energy Limited / Seagreen Bravo Wind Energy Limited
A registered charge2 properties29/01/202002/10/2020
outstanding
The Agricultural Mortgage Corporation
The Agricultural Mortgage Corporation PLC
A registered charge1 property24/12/2019—
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Recent filings (38 total)

change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2026-04-09
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2026-04-09
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-10-07
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-02-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-03
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-02-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-01-05
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-02-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-02-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-05-31
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-02-28
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2022-02-28
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-02-28
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2022-02-28