BLACK & BLUE (RESTAURANTS) LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
09539554 · ltd · incorporated 2015-04-13
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
hardening · 12-months
Already tight — no obvious softening catalysts on the horizon.
  • · Thesis: well-run, low negotiation leverage
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Apr 2025
Net worth
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Opportunity
79/100
Strong
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 99999
Sector: Extraterritorial bodies
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 78-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 79/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 78). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: high (82/100)

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
4 officers (2 active, 4 linked, 4 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
10 connected companies via shared directors
75
Filing history
35 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
79/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

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

Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
75
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
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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£0£0£0£0£0£0Apr 2024Apr 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-04-302024-04-30
Average employees2200

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
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filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (22 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-01-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-11-20
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  3. 2023-08-04
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  4. 2022-12-02
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    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-01-07
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  6. 2021-04-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  7. 2020-03-06
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    GAY, Julie appointed
    director
  8. 2020-03-06
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    BACON, Richard Alan Kenneth resigned
    director
  9. 2020-03-06
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  10. 2020-03-06
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  11. 2020-03-06
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    officers · AP01
  12. 2020-03-06
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    officers · TM01
  13. 2020-01-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  14. 2020-01-02
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    address · AD01
  15. 2019-06-19
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  16. 2019-01-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  17. 2017-08-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  18. 2015-04-15
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    HILL, Nicholas Lorraine Edmund appointed
    director
  19. 2015-04-15
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    BACON, Richard Alan Kenneth appointed
    director
  20. 2015-04-15
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    SINANAN, David resigned
    director
  21. 2015-04-13
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    Company incorporated
    As BLACK & BLUE (RESTAURANTS) LIMITED
  22. 2015-04-13
    ➕
    SINANAN, David 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 78 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

71/100
Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 78 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • 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

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Nicholas Lorraine Edmund Hill
Individual · British · DOB 05/1948 · age 78
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control06/04/2016
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Mr Richard Alan Kenneth Baconceased 06/03/2020· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting

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
Incorporated2015-04-13
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC99999 — SIC 99999

Registered office

29 Avenue Road
Bexleyheath
DA7 4EP
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-01-31
Last made up to: 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-08-15
Last: 2025-08-01

Officers (2 active · 2 resigned)

GAY, Julie→
director · ~58y · appointed 2020-03-06
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HILL, Nicholas Lorraine Edmund→
director · ~78y · appointed 2015-04-15
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BACON, Richard Alan Kenneth→
director · ~83y · appointed 2015-04-15 · resigned 2020-03-06
Resigned
SINANAN, David→
director · ~71y · appointed 2015-04-13 · resigned 2015-04-15
Resigned

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Recent filings (35 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2026-01-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-08-22
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2024-11-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-08-02
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-08-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2023-08-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2022-12-02
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-08-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2022-01-07
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-08-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2021-04-17
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-08-06
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2020-03-06
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2020-03-06
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officers · AP01
2020-03-06