EASTCLIFFE NEWS SHOPS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

03220671 · ltd · incorporated 1996-07-04

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.

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Mar 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

74/100

Strong

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What this business does

Primary activity: Retail sale in non-specialised stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating

Sector: Wholesale & retail

Investor take

Pursue

Strong opportunity: active trading company with strong profile and acceptable with review structure.

Opportunity 74/100 (strong), bankability 57/100. High owner-dependency — earn-out structure likely required for clean transition. Asset purchase likely safer than share purchase given structural signals. Biggest value-creation lever: Consolidate lender relationships. 7 distinct lenders creates friction — refinance into single-lender structure for cleaner diligence. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (45/100).

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Refinance opportunity

17 live charges · 7 lenders · oldest 18.8y

25/100

too messy

Structure is too messy for a clean refinance right now — clean up first or expect bespoke terms.

· Oldest live charge is 18.8 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· 7 lenders named — inter-creditor friction likely.
· Legal-friction score 55/100 (high).

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

17 charges (17/17 with lender, 17/17 with type)

Directors & officers

28 officers (3 active, 28 linked, 24 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

4 active PSC(s) of 5 total, 5 with control declared

Director network

6 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

178 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

74/100Strong

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

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

Business quality

Adequate — check latest filings for context.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

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Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-03-27	2024-03-27
Average employees	36	3400

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

filings

Last 90 days

filings

• 1 mortgage
• 1 officers

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 mortgage
• 1 officers
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (100 events)Click to expand

2026-03-10
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mortgage · MR01
2026-03-06
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Charge registered #17
Lender: Lloyds Bank PLC
2026-03-04
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officers · TM01
2026-02-18
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TITTERTON, Mark John resigned
director
2025-12-23
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accounts · AA
2025-03-26
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2023-12-24
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accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2022-12-23
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2021-10-25
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accounts · AA
2021-01-21
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mortgage · MR04
2021-01-21
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Charge satisfied #14
2021-01-12
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accounts · AA
2021-01-12
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2020-12-29
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mortgage · MR01
2020-12-23
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Charge registered #16
Lender: Bestway Retail Limited
2020-08-06
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officers · AP01
2020-08-01
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CLAYTON, Mark James appointed
director
2020-03-18
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accounts · AA01
2019-12-20
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accounts · AA01
2019-10-16
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accounts · AA
2019-03-15
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accounts · AA01
2019-02-25
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2019-02-25
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officers · TM01
2019-02-22
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JAMES, Rebecca Jane resigned
director
2017-07-06
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TITTERTON, Mark John appointed
director
2016-04-05
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Charge registered #15
Lender: Lloyds Bank PLC
2016-03-23
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JAMES, Jonathan Martin appointed
secretary
2016-03-23
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JAMES, Jonathan Martin appointed
director
2016-03-23
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HYETT, Peter resigned
secretary
2016-03-23
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BEVERLEY, Christine Anne resigned
director
2016-03-23
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COLLEY, Michael John resigned
director
2016-03-23
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HARGREAVE, Anthony Robert Brooks resigned
director
2016-03-23
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HYETT, Peter resigned
director
2016-03-23
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JAMES, Rebecca Jane appointed
director
2016-03-23
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Charge registered #14
Lender: Bargain Booze Limited (Crn: 01801597)
2014-09-01
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Charge satisfied #11
2014-06-18
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Charge satisfied #10
2013-02-08
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Charge registered #13
Lender: Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC
2011-11-03
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Charge satisfied #9
2011-11-03
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Charge satisfied #8
2011-07-27
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Charge registered #12
Lender: Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC
2011-07-19
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BEVERLEY, Christine Anne appointed
director
2011-04-08
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MEDCALF, Henry Clifford resigned
director
2011-04-08
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Charge registered #11
Lender: Paypoint PLC
2011-04-08
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Charge registered #10
Lender: Henry and Annette Medcalf (The Beneficiaries)
2011-04-08
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Charge registered #9
Lender: Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC
2011-03-08
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Charge satisfied #6
2011-03-08
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Charge satisfied #5
2011-03-08
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Charge satisfied #2
2011-03-08
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Charge satisfied #1

Showing most recent 50 of 100 events

Owner dependency

66/100

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.
+Senior director age: Director aged approximately 58 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

61/100

Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS

secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 58. Early succession window.
secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 30 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

1 med · 1 low

Charge satisfaction-then-recreation pattern

medium

Multiple instances where a charge was satisfied and a new charge created within 6 months. Suggests active refinancing cycle.

6 live charges

low

Heavily leveraged with multiple live security positions — understand the capital structure before proceeding.

Group structure

3 corporate shareholders identified. Group structure is distributed.

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James Convenience Retail Limited

Corporate parent

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Rippleglen Limited

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares

ultimate parent

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First Stop News Limited

Corporate parent

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EASTCLIFFE NEWS SHOPS LIMITED

This company · 03220671

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

4 active beneficial owners · dominant holder ≥75% · fragmented

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Rippleglen Limited Corporate entity	75–100%	—	75-100% shares	06/04/2016
Mr Jonathan Martin James Individual · British · DOB 09/1968 · age 58	—	—	sig. influencesignificant influence · firm interest	06/04/2016
James Convenience Retail Limited Corporate entity	—	—	sig. influencesignificant influence · firm interest	06/04/2016
First Stop News Limited Corporate entity	—	—	sig. influencesignificant influence · firm interest	06/04/2016

1 historic (ceased) PSC

Mrs Rebecca Jane Jamesceased 22/02/2019· significant influence · firm interest

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

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7 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

Incorporated1996-07-04

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC47110 — Retail sale in non-specialised stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating

Registered office

Hazel Court Midland Way

Barlborough

Chesterfield

Derbyshire

S43 4FD

England

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-27

Last made up to: 2025-03-27

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-07-18

Last: 2025-07-04

Officers (3 active · 25 resigned)

JAMES, Jonathan Martin→

secretary · appointed 2016-03-23

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

CLAYTON, Mark James→

director · ~37y · appointed 2020-08-01

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Active

JAMES, Jonathan Martin→

director · ~58y · appointed 2016-03-23

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Active

COLLINS, Paul Simon→

secretary · appointed 1996-12-19 · resigned 2007-06-29

Resigned

HYETT, Peter→

secretary · appointed 2007-06-29 · resigned 2016-03-23

Resigned

LONEY, Jonathan Mark→

nominee-secretary · appointed 1996-07-04 · resigned 1996-12-19

Resigned

BEVERLEY, Christine Anne→

director · ~74y · appointed 2011-07-19 · resigned 2016-03-23

Resigned

COLLEY, Michael John→

director · ~73y · appointed 2007-06-29 · resigned 2016-03-23

Resigned

DAVIDSON, Alexander Lindsay→

director · ~80y · appointed 1996-12-19 · resigned 2001-09-03

Resigned

DODD, Richard William→

director · ~76y · appointed 1996-12-19 · resigned 2002-01-21

Resigned

DUTTON, David Martin Maxfield→

director · ~84y · appointed 1999-02-26 · resigned 2007-06-29

Resigned

FRAZHER, Clifford Jack→

director · ~73y · appointed 1996-12-19 · resigned 1998-06-08

Resigned

GLYNN, Edward Paul→

director · ~78y · appointed 2002-02-05 · resigned 2006-04-28

Resigned

HARGREAVE, Anthony Robert Brooks→

director · ~64y · appointed 2008-09-24 · resigned 2016-03-23

Resigned

HILL, Anthony Brian→

director · ~79y · appointed 1996-12-19 · resigned 2005-07-31

Resigned

HORWOOD, Michael Stanley→

nominee-director · ~83y · appointed 1996-07-04 · resigned 1996-12-19

Resigned

HYETT, Peter→

director · ~73y · appointed 2007-06-29 · resigned 2016-03-23

Resigned

JAMES, Rebecca Jane→

director · ~57y · appointed 2016-03-23 · resigned 2019-02-22

Resigned

JONES, William→

nominee-director · ~87y · appointed 1996-07-04 · resigned 1996-12-19

Resigned

LONEY, Jonathan Mark→

nominee-director · ~67y · appointed 1996-07-04 · resigned 1996-12-19

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:17 of 17 shown

		Type	Properties
outstanding	Lloyds Banking Group Lloyds Bank PLC	A registered charge	—	06/03/2026	—
outstanding	Bestway Retail Bestway Retail Limited	A registered charge	1 property	23/12/2020	—
outstanding	Lloyds Banking Group Lloyds Bank PLC	A registered charge	—	05/04/2016	—
satisfied	Bargain Booze (Crn: 01801597) Bargain Booze Limited (Crn: 01801597)	A registered charge	1 property	23/03/2016	21/01/2021
outstanding	Lloyds Banking Group Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC	Deed of accession	1 property	08/02/2013	—
outstanding	Lloyds Banking Group Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC	Omnibus guarantee and set-off agreement	1 property	27/07/2011	—
satisfied	Paypoint Paypoint PLC	Floating charge	1 property	08/04/2011	01/09/2014
satisfied	Henry and Annette Medcalf (The Beneficiaries)	Debenture	1 property	08/04/2011	18/06/2014
satisfied	Lloyds Banking Group Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC	Deed of admission to an omnibus guarantee and set-off agreement	1 property	08/04/2011	03/11/2011
satisfied	Lloyds Banking Group Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC	An omnibus guarantee and set-off agreement	1 property	25/02/2011	03/11/2011
outstanding	Lloyds Banking Group Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC	Debenture	1 property	25/02/2011	—
satisfied	National Westminster Bank National Westminster Bank PLC	Legal charge	1 property	29/06/2007	08/03/2011
satisfied	National Westminster Bank National Westminster Bank PLC	Legal charge	1 property	29/06/2007	08/03/2011
satisfied	National Westminster Bank National Westminster Bank PLC	Legal charge	1 property	29/06/2007	24/02/2011
satisfied	National Westminster Bank National Westminster Bank PLC	Legal charge	1 property	29/06/2007	24/02/2011
satisfied	National Westminster Bank National Westminster Bank PLC	Legal charge	1 property	29/06/2007	08/03/2011
satisfied	National Westminster Bank National Westminster Bank PLC	Debenture	1 property	29/06/2007	08/03/2011

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Recent filings (178 total)

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mortgage · MR01

2026-03-10

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officers · TM01

2026-03-04

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accounts · AA

2025-12-23