ALEXANDROS GREEK RESTAURANT LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
05594838 · ltd · incorporated 2005-10-17
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 17.6y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Nov 2024
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Licenced restaurants
Sector: Accommodation & food service
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 63-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 63). 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 17.6y
65/100
clean up first
Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.
- · Oldest live charge is 17.6 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 (77/100)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
6 officers (3 active, 6 linked, 4 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
3 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
60 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 accountsCash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102| Metric | 2024-11-30 | 2023-11-30 |
|---|---|---|
| Average employees | 3900 | 3200 |
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.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
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filings
Last 90 days
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Last 180 days
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filings
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (26 events)Click to expand
- 2025-07-25📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-11-18📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-11-05📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC01
- 2023-09-15📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-09-16📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-11-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2020-12-07📄capital-name-of-class-of-sharescapital · SH08
- 2020-11-26📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2019-10-17📄capital-allotment-sharescapital · SH01
- 2019-07-24📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2018-12-28📄accounts-amended-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AAMD
- 2018-08-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2017-09-04📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-smallaccounts · AA
- 2016-03-15📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-smallaccounts · AA
- 2016-03-02📄capital-allotment-sharescapital · SH01
- 2008-10-14🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
- 2008-09-03➖ATHANASIADIS, Vasilis resigneddirector
- 2005-12-02➕PATHANOGLOU, Sarah Elizabeth appointeddirector
- 2005-12-01➕PATHANOGLOU, Aristeidis appointedsecretary
- 2005-12-01➕PATHANOGLOU, Aristeidis appointeddirector
- 2005-12-01➖BUTLER, Alexander Lowe resignedsecretary
- 2005-12-01➕ATHANASIADIS, Vasilis appointeddirector
- 2005-12-01➖BUTLER, David Alexander resigneddirector
- 2005-10-17🏢Company incorporatedAs ALEXANDROS GREEK RESTAURANT LIMITED
- 2005-10-17➕BUTLER, Alexander Lowe appointedsecretary
- 2005-10-17➕BUTLER, David Alexander appointeddirector
Owner dependency
84/100
Critical — business is the founderThe 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 20 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 63 — approaching natural succession window.
- +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.
Succession & seller-readiness
86/100
Likely off-market candidateStrong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 63. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
- secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
- primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 20 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 21 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
cleanNo red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)
Shareholders & ownership
3 active beneficial owners| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
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Mr Anastasios Pathanoglou Individual · British · DOB 10/1996 · age 30 | 25–50% | 25–50% | board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control | 30/11/2021 |
Mr Aristeidis Pathanoglou Individual · Greek · DOB 07/1963 · age 63 | 25–50% | 25–50% | board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control | 17/10/2016 |
Mrs Sarah Elizabeth Pathanoglou Individual · British · DOB 07/1970 · age 56 | 25–50% | 25–50% | board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control | 17/10/2016 |
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
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Peers ranked by estimated value, then turnover, then opportunity score.See all →
🔒Tailored diligence questions
6 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.
See pricing →🔒Advanced scoring suite
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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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2005-10-17
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC56101 — Licenced restaurants
Registered office
Suite 1 Telford House
Warwick Road
Carlisle
Cumbria
CA1 2BT
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-08-31
Last made up to: 2024-11-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-10-31
Last: 2025-10-17
Officers (3 active · 3 resigned)
PATHANOGLOU, Aristeidis→
Activesecretary · appointed 2005-12-01
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PATHANOGLOU, Aristeidis→
Activedirector · ~63y · appointed 2005-12-01
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PATHANOGLOU, Sarah Elizabeth→
Activedirector · ~56y · appointed 2005-12-02
View their other companies + combined net worth →
BUTLER, Alexander Lowe→
Resignedsecretary · appointed 2005-10-17 · resigned 2005-12-01
ATHANASIADIS, Vasilis→
Resigneddirector · ~49y · appointed 2005-12-01 · resigned 2008-09-03
BUTLER, David Alexander→
Resigneddirector · ~53y · appointed 2005-10-17 · resigned 2005-12-01
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Mortgages & charges
1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Lloyds Banking Group Royal Bank of Scotland PLC | Legal charge over licensed premises | 1 property | 14/10/2008 | — |
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Recent filings (60 total)
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-11-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-07-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-11-18
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2024-11-05
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-11-05
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-11-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-09-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-12-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-09-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-11-30
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-10-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-12-17
capital-name-of-class-of-shares
capital · SH08
2020-12-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2020-11-26
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-11-18