BOWERS RESTAURANTS (NEWCASTLE) LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
00514814 · ltd · incorporated 1953-01-02
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 66.0y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Dec 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Activities of open-ended investment companies
Sector: Financial & insurance
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 78-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 78). 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 (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 66.0y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 66.0 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 (78/100)

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 (2 active, 4 linked, 3 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
93 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
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
75
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Dec 2024Dec 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-12-312024-12-31
Average employees2200

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (20 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-06-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-08-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-08-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-04-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-04-06
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  6. 2022-03-28
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  7. 2021-04-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  8. 2020-04-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  9. 2019-04-03
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  10. 2018-05-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2017-04-05
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2016-07-28
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    MAY, Peter William appointed
    director
  13. 2016-07-28
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  14. 2016-07-27
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    address · AD01
  15. 2016-07-25
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    termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM02
  16. 2016-07-25
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  17. 2016-07-19
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    BOWER, Ronald resigned
    secretary
  18. 2016-07-19
    ➖
    BOWER, Ronald resigned
    director
  19. 1960-07-22
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Barclays Bank LTD
  20. 1953-01-02
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    Company incorporated
    As BOWERS RESTAURANTS (NEWCASTLE) 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 78 — 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 78 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 74 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

1 active beneficial owner
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Helen Margaret May
Individual · British · DOB 08/1951 · age 75
50–75%
—50-75% shares10/03/2017

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
Incorporated1953-01-02
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC64304 — Activities of open-ended investment companies

Registered office

5 Reynolds Mews
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 2NR
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-09-30
Last made up to: 2025-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-14
Last: 2026-03-31

Officers (2 active · 2 resigned)

MAY, Helen Margaret→
director · ~75y
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Active
MAY, Peter William→
director · ~78y · appointed 2016-07-28
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Active
BOWER, Ronald→
secretary · resigned 2016-07-19
Resigned
BOWER, Ronald→
director · ~99y · resigned 2016-07-19
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Barclays
Barclays Bank LTD
Legal charge3 properties22/07/1960—
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Recent filings (93 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2026-06-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-31
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-08-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-08-01
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-04-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-04-06
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-04-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-04-06
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2022-03-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-04-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-04-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2020-04-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-04-08