APPLAUD COFFEE IPSWICH LIMITED
🌱Startupactive
16419645 · ltd · incorporated 2025-04-30
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.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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not disclosed
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
76/100
Strong
What this business does
Primary activity: Unlicenced restaurants and cafes
Sector: Accommodation & food service
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 69-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 76/100 (strong), bankability 65/100. Strong seller-intent signal (60/100, director aged 69). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).
Data confidence
Overall: low (46/100)Sparse data coverage. Treat AI-generated outputs as preliminary. Manual diligence essential.
Company profile
address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
No iXBRL financials extracted
0
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
3 officers (2 active, 3 linked, 3 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)
35
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
5 filings
60
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
76/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional
Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.
Business quality
60
Adequate — check latest filings for context.
Acquirability
75
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.
Recent activity
Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
2
filings
- • 1 confirmation-statement
- • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (9 events)Click to expand
- 2026-03-14📄change-account-reference-date-company-current-shortenedaccounts · AA01
- 2025-10-09📄termination-director-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM01
- 2025-09-17➖STEENSMA, Ellen resigneddirector
- 2025-06-26📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2025-06-23➕STEENSMA, Ellen appointeddirector
- 2025-04-30🏢Company incorporatedAs APPLAUD COFFEE IPSWICH LIMITED
- 2025-04-30➕KEY, Matthew Thomas, Revd appointeddirector
- 2025-04-30➕STURGESS, Ian Charles Clifford appointeddirector
- 2025-04-30📄incorporation-companyincorporation · NEWINC
Owner dependency
78/100
High — earn-out structure requiredMaterial 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 69 — succession pressure is live.
- +Young company: Only 1.2 years old — management layer unlikely to be developed.
Succession & seller-readiness
56/100
Strong succession signalMultiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 69. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
- secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
Red flags
cleanNo red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)
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Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2025-04-30
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC56102 — Unlicenced restaurants and cafes
Registered office
River Church Ipswich
St Mary-At-The-Quay, Key Street
Ipswich
Suffolk
IP4 1BZ
United Kingdom
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: —
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-05-13
Last: 2026-04-29
Officers (2 active · 1 resigned)
KEY, Matthew Thomas, Revd→
Activedirector · ~32y · appointed 2025-04-30
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STURGESS, Ian Charles Clifford→
Activedirector · ~69y · appointed 2025-04-30
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STEENSMA, Ellen→
Resigneddirector · ~27y · appointed 2025-06-23 · resigned 2025-09-17
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Recent filings (5 total)
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-06-03
change-account-reference-date-company-current-shortened
accounts · AA01
2026-03-14
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2025-10-09
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2025-06-26
incorporation-company
incorporation · NEWINC
2025-04-30