MARIMBA WORLD CHOCOLATE LIMITED

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06507638 · ltd · incorporated 2008-02-18

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 18.3y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Feb 2025

Net worth

£125.4k

book net assets

Opportunity

82/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Unlicenced restaurants and cafes

Sector: Accommodation & food service

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 64-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 64). 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 18.3y

65/100

clean up first

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

· Oldest live charge is 18.3 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: high (80/100)

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

5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 3 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

4 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

52 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

82/100Exceptional

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 £125,416

Cash YoY

+26%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£32k

↑ 26% YoY

Net Worth

£125k

↑ 140% YoY

Current Assets

£273k

↑ 16% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-02-28	2024-02-29
Total assets	£259.5k	£202.8k
Current assets	£272.8k	£234.9k
Cash	£32.0k	£25.4k
Debtors	£117.8k	£109.9k
Net assets	£125.4k	£52.3k

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

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand

2025-07-11
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2022-06-16
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2016-03-01
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2008-03-27
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Hsbc Bank PLC
2008-02-27
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WRIGHT, David Ian appointed
secretary
2008-02-27
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WRIGHT, David Ian appointed
director
2008-02-27
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WRIGHT, Jacqueline Heather appointed
director
2008-02-27
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HART, Sharon resigned
nominee-secretary
2008-02-27
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WILKINSON, Colin John resigned
nominee-director
2008-02-18
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Company incorporated
As MARIMBA WORLD CHOCOLATE LIMITED
2008-02-18
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HART, Sharon appointed
nominee-secretary
2008-02-18
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WILKINSON, Colin John appointed
nominee-director

Owner dependency

84/100

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 18 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Senior director age: Director aged approximately 64 — approaching natural succession window.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

79/100

Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 64. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 18 years.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 18 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

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr David Ian Wright Individual · British · DOB 12/1962 · age 64	25–50%	—	25-50% shares	06/04/2016
Mrs Jacqueline Heather Wright Individual · British · DOB 05/1962 · age 64	25–50%	—	25-50% shares	06/04/2016

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

Incorporated2008-02-18

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC56102 — Unlicenced restaurants and cafes

Registered office

134 South Street

Bishop's Stortford

Hertfordshire

CM23 3BQ

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-11-30

Last made up to: 2025-02-28

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-03-04

Last: 2026-02-18

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

WRIGHT, David Ian→

secretary · appointed 2008-02-27

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Active

WRIGHT, David Ian→

director · ~64y · appointed 2008-02-27

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Active

WRIGHT, Jacqueline Heather→

director · ~64y · appointed 2008-02-27

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Active

HART, Sharon→

nominee-secretary · appointed 2008-02-18 · resigned 2008-02-27

Resigned

WILKINSON, Colin John→

nominee-director · ~57y · appointed 2008-02-18 · resigned 2008-02-27

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown

			Type	Properties
	outstanding	HSBC Hsbc Bank PLC	Debenture	1 property	27/03/2008	—

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