RSC MANAGEMENT LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC194243 · ltd · incorporated 1999-03-11

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 15.4y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Dec 2024

Net worth

£426.4k

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Hotels and similar accommodation

Sector: Accommodation & food service

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 66-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 66). 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 15.4y

65/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 15.4 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 38/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: high (81/100)

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

31 officers (11 active, 31 linked, 25 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

7 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

117 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 £426,398

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£591k

Net Worth

£426k

Current Assets

£1.2m

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2024-12-31	2023-12-31
Total assets	£766.0k	—
Current assets	£1.19M	—
Cash	£590.7k	—
Debtors	£567.9k	—
Net assets	£426.4k	—
Average employees	—	5100

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

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2 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

filings

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (73 events)Click to expand

2025-06-06
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BLAIR, Heather Margaret appointed
director
2025-06-06
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GOODACRE, David Anthony appointed
director
2025-06-06
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2025-06-06
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2025-04-23
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2024-12-10
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TAYLOR, Peter James resigned
director
2024-12-10
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officers · TM01
2024-11-19
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2024-11-19
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2024-11-11
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BERTRAM, Morna appointed
director
2024-11-11
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ELLIS, Neil appointed
director
2024-10-02
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ANDERSON, James resigned
director
2024-10-02
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officers · TM01
2024-09-30
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NEWELL, Catherine resigned
director
2024-09-30
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officers · TM01
2024-06-05
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accounts · AA
2024-05-31
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2024-05-27
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JETUAH, Christian appointed
director
2024-02-23
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2024-02-23
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2024-02-22
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SOUTAR, Alasdair resigned
secretary
2023-04-28
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2023-03-20
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JACK, David appointed
secretary
2023-03-20
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2022-05-30
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2022-03-23
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SOUTAR, Alasdair appointed
secretary
2022-03-23
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2022-01-31
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2022-01-31
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2021-12-31
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DENT, John Vernon resigned
secretary
2021-12-31
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DENT, John Vernon resigned
director
2021-12-06
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BRISTOW, Jonathan David Mark appointed
director
2021-12-06
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2021-10-28
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2021-10-26
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SNODDON, Lyndsay appointed
director
2021-10-26
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NEWELL, Catherine appointed
director
2021-05-21
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LOWDER, Shirley resigned
director
2021-05-11
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SOUTAR, Alasdair Charles Ogg appointed
director
2021-03-23
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HENDERSON, Shields resigned
director
2021-01-11
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SOUTAR, Norman Graeme Scott appointed
director
2018-01-23
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MILLAR, Hamish Ainslie resigned
director
2016-06-21
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LOWDER, Shirley appointed
director
2015-10-09
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PATERSON, Robert Haston, Lt. Col. resigned
director
2015-10-09
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WHITE, Robert Pringle resigned
director
2015-06-15
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BLYTHE, Mhairi resigned
director
2015-06-01
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MILLAR, Hamish Ainslie appointed
director
2014-12-08
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ANDERSON, James appointed
director
2014-10-10
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RICHARDSON, Guy Scott appointed
director
2014-10-10
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ADAIR, Brian resigned
director
2012-03-20
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RICHARDSON, Robert Francis, Sir resigned
director

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Owner dependency

63/100

High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS

-10 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 66 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

55/100

Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 66. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
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

1 active beneficial owner

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Norman Graeme Scott Soutar Individual · British · DOB 07/1960 · age 66	—	—	sig. influencesignificant influence	23/03/2021

1 historic (ceased) PSC

Mr William Shields Hendersonceased 23/03/2021· significant influence

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

Incorporated1999-03-11

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC55100 — Hotels and similar accommodation

Registered office

30 Abercromby Place

Edinburgh

Midlothian

EH3 6QE

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-09-30

Last made up to: 2024-12-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-03-18

Last: 2026-03-04