GELATERIA DANIELI LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
05320897 · ltd · incorporated 2004-12-23
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 19.4y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Dec 2024
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 10520
Sector: Manufacturing
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 10821SIC 10821
  • 47290Other retail sale of food in specialised stores
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 76-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 76). 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

3 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 19.4y

50/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 19.4 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

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

Company profile
address, 3 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)
90
Directors & officers
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 3 with DOB)
82
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
6 connected companies via shared directors
63
Filing history
79 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
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
80
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 2023Dec 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · IFRS
Metric2024-12-312023-12-31
Average employees22001600

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

2 signals 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
6
filings
  • • 3 officers
  • • 2 persons-with-significant-control
  • • 1 address
Last 180 days
6
filings
  • • 3 officers
  • • 2 persons-with-significant-control
  • • 1 address
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (30 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-06-05
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  2. 2026-06-05
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  3. 2026-06-05
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  4. 2026-06-05
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  5. 2026-06-05
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  6. 2026-06-05
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    change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH03
  7. 2025-11-18
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    accounts · AA
  8. 2024-09-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2023-09-29
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    accounts · AA
  10. 2022-09-06
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2022-01-07
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  12. 2022-01-07
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  13. 2022-01-07
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  14. 2022-01-07
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  15. 2022-01-07
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    change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH03
  16. 2022-01-07
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  17. 2022-01-06
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  18. 2021-09-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  19. 2020-12-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  20. 2017-05-19
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    Charge registered #3
    Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
  21. 2012-03-16
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Omaha Nominees (A) Limited and Omaha Nominees (B) Limited
  22. 2007-02-19
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: National Westminster Bank PLC
  23. 2007-01-16
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    JACOBS, Lionel Lewis resigned
    director
  24. 2004-12-23
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    Company incorporated
    As GELATERIA DANIELI LIMITED
  25. 2004-12-23
    ➕
    VAGLIASINDI, Carlo appointed
    secretary
  26. 2004-12-23
    ➕
    HUNT, Bridget appointed
    director
  27. 2004-12-23
    ➕
    VAGLIASINDI, Carlo appointed
    director
  28. 2004-12-23
    ➕
    CHETTLEBURGHS SECRETARIAL LTD appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  29. 2004-12-23
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    CHETTLEBURGHS SECRETARIAL LTD resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  30. 2004-12-23
    ➕
    JACOBS, Lionel Lewis appointed
    director

Owner dependency

83/100
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
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 22 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 76 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

96/100
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 76 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 22 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 22 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

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
Mr Carlo Vagliasindi
Individual · British · DOB 06/1950 · age 76
50–75%
50–75%board control50-75% shares · 50-75% voting · board control06/04/2016
Ms Bridget Hunt
Individual · British · DOB 01/1975 · age 51
25–50%
25–50%board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control06/04/2016

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

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Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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🔒Tailored diligence questions

8 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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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
Incorporated2004-12-23
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC10520 — SIC 10520

Registered office

26 The Slipway Marina Keep
Port Solent
Portsmouth
Hampshire
PO6 4TR
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-01-06
Last: 2025-12-23

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

VAGLIASINDI, Carlo→
secretary · appointed 2004-12-23
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HUNT, Bridget→
director · ~51y · appointed 2004-12-23
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
VAGLIASINDI, Carlo→
director · ~76y · appointed 2004-12-23
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
CHETTLEBURGHS SECRETARIAL LTD→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2004-12-23 · resigned 2004-12-23
Resigned
JACOBS, Lionel Lewis→
director · ~90y · appointed 2004-12-23 · resigned 2007-01-16
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

3
Total charges
3
Outstanding
2
Active lenders
Status:Lender:3 of 3 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
National Westminster Bank
National Westminster Bank PLC
A registered charge1 property19/05/2017—
outstanding
Omaha Nominees (A) and Omaha Nominees (B)
Omaha Nominees (A) Limited and Omaha Nominees (B) Limited
Rent deposit deed1 property16/03/2012—
outstanding
National Westminster Bank
National Westminster Bank PLC
Debenture1 property19/02/2007—
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Recent filings (79 total)

change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2026-06-05
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2026-06-05
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2026-06-05
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-06-05
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-06-05
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2026-06-05
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-01-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-11-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-01-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-09-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-12-29
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-09-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-12-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-09-06
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-01-07