149 (BRIDLINGTON) LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
06702011 · ltd · incorporated 2008-09-18
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 7.2y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Sept 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Take-away food shops and mobile food stands
Sector: Accommodation & food service
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 74-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 74). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 7.2y

85/100
ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

  • · Oldest live charge is 7.2 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (83/100)

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
75
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
10 officers (2 active, 10 linked, 7 with DOB)
84
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
17 connected companies via shared directors
90
Filing history
67 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£0Sept 2024Sept 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-09-302024-09-30
Average employees200—

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
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (39 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-04-07
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-11-05
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
  3. 2025-09-25
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    MILLS, Lorraine Olga resigned
    secretary
  4. 2025-09-25
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    termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM02
  5. 2025-05-19
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  6. 2025-05-19
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  7. 2025-05-15
    ➕
    FLEMING, James Andrew appointed
    director
  8. 2025-05-15
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    LOW, James Andrew Derrik resigned
    director
  9. 2025-05-12
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  10. 2024-10-30
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    mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
    mortgage · MR04
  11. 2024-10-30
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    Charge satisfied #1
  12. 2024-05-02
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  13. 2023-05-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  14. 2022-02-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  15. 2021-07-08
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  16. 2021-02-10
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  17. 2019-09-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  18. 2019-09-18
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  19. 2019-09-12
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  20. 2019-02-26
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  21. 2019-02-22
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  22. 2019-02-15
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    change-account-reference-date-company-current-shortened
    accounts · AA01
  23. 2019-02-15
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  24. 2019-02-04
    ➕
    HUTCHINSON, Richard Eugene appointed
    director
  25. 2019-02-04
    ➖
    GILBERTSON, Suzanne resigned
    secretary
  26. 2019-02-04
    ➕
    MILLS, Lorraine Olga appointed
    secretary
  27. 2019-02-04
    ➖
    GILBERTSON, Suzanne resigned
    director
  28. 2019-02-04
    ➖
    GILBERTSON, Suzanne resigned
    director
  29. 2019-02-04
    ➕
    LOW, James Andrew Derrik appointed
    director
  30. 2013-01-02
    ➕
    GILBERTSON, Suzanne appointed
    secretary
  31. 2013-01-02
    ➖
    POSKITT, Tracy Susan Veronica resigned
    secretary
  32. 2013-01-02
    ➕
    GILBERTSON, Suzanne appointed
    director
  33. 2013-01-02
    ➕
    GILBERTSON, Suzanne appointed
    director
  34. 2013-01-02
    ➖
    POSKITT, Tracy Susan Veronica resigned
    director
  35. 2013-01-02
    ➖
    SILK, Matthew resigned
    director
  36. 2008-09-18
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As 149 (BRIDLINGTON) LIMITED
  37. 2008-09-18
    ➕
    POSKITT, Tracy Susan Veronica appointed
    secretary
  38. 2008-09-18
    ➕
    POSKITT, Tracy Susan Veronica appointed
    director
  39. 2008-09-18
    ➕
    SILK, Matthew appointed
    director

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 74 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

66/100
Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 74 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.

Red flags

clean
No red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)

Group structure

Harry Ramsden's Group Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Harry Ramsden's Group Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control
ultimate parent
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149 (BRIDLINGTON) LIMITED
This company · 06702011

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

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Harry Ramsden's Group Limited
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control04/02/2019
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Mrs Suzanne Gilbertsonceased 04/02/2019· 75-100% shares

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

🔒Co-director network graph

Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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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
Incorporated2008-09-18
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC56103 — Take-away food shops and mobile food stands

Registered office

Chapter House, 33 London Road
Reigate
RH2 9HZ
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-06-30
Last made up to: 2025-09-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-10-01
Last: 2025-09-17

Officers (2 active · 8 resigned)

FLEMING, James Andrew→
director · ~55y · appointed 2025-05-15
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HUTCHINSON, Richard Eugene→
director · ~74y · appointed 2019-02-04
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
GILBERTSON, Suzanne→
secretary · appointed 2013-01-02 · resigned 2019-02-04
Resigned
MILLS, Lorraine Olga→
secretary · appointed 2019-02-04 · resigned 2025-09-25
Resigned
POSKITT, Tracy Susan Veronica→
secretary · appointed 2008-09-18 · resigned 2013-01-02
Resigned
GILBERTSON, Suzanne→
director · ~58y · appointed 2013-01-02 · resigned 2019-02-04
Resigned
GILBERTSON, Suzanne→
director · ~58y · appointed 2013-01-02 · resigned 2019-02-04
Resigned
LOW, James Andrew Derrik→
director · ~65y · appointed 2019-02-04 · resigned 2025-05-15
Resigned
POSKITT, Tracy Susan Veronica→
director · ~64y · appointed 2008-09-18 · resigned 2013-01-02
Resigned
SILK, Matthew→
director · ~53y · appointed 2008-09-18 · resigned 2013-01-02
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
0
Outstanding
0
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
satisfied
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
A registered charge—22/02/201930/10/2024

Recent filings (67 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2026-04-07
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2025-11-05
termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2025-09-25
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-09-18
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2025-05-19
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2025-05-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2025-05-12
mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2024-10-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-09-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2024-05-02
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-09-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2023-05-04
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-09-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2022-02-04
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-09-17