COOL SPRINGS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

NI047005 · ltd · incorporated 2003-06-19

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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year to Jun 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Non-specialised wholesale trade

Sector: Wholesale & retail

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 60-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 60). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 4 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

Network not yet resolved

Filing history

54 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

80/100Exceptional

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

Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-06-30	2024-06-30
Average employees	400	400

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

filings

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand

2026-03-19
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2025-03-18
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2024-03-08
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2023-03-27
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2022-03-15
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2021-04-23
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2020-03-20
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2019-03-19
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2018-03-29
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2017-03-28
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2016-06-27
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2016-03-10
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2015-07-02
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2015-03-10
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2014-07-03
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2014-03-21
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2003-07-17
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COUGHLAN, David appointed
director
2003-07-17
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COUGHLAN, Sharon appointed
director
2003-07-17
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CAUGHEY, Sean resigned
director
2003-07-17
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MEEHAN, Sean Thomas resigned
director
2003-06-19
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Company incorporated
As COOL SPRINGS LIMITED
2003-06-19
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COUGHLAN, David appointed
secretary
2003-06-19
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CAUGHEY, Sean appointed
director
2003-06-19
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MEEHAN, Sean Thomas appointed
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 23 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Senior director age: Director aged approximately 60 — approaching natural succession window.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

76/100

Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS

secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 60. Early succession window.
secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 23 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 23 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 Coughlan Individual · Irish · DOB 05/1966 · age 60	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	19/06/2017
Mrs Sharon Coughlan Individual · Irish · DOB 08/1967 · age 59	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	19/06/2017

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

Incorporated2003-06-19

Jurisdictionnorthern-ireland

Primary SIC46900 — Non-specialised wholesale trade

Registered office

C/O Fitzpatrick And Kearney

10c Marcus Square

Newry

Co Down

BT34 5UU

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-03-31

Last made up to: 2025-06-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-07-02

Last: 2025-06-18

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

COUGHLAN, David→

secretary · appointed 2003-06-19

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Active

COUGHLAN, David→

director · ~60y · appointed 2003-07-17

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Active

COUGHLAN, Sharon→

director · ~59y · appointed 2003-07-17

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Active

CAUGHEY, Sean→

director · ~69y · appointed 2003-06-19 · resigned 2003-07-17

Resigned

MEEHAN, Sean Thomas→

director · ~52y · appointed 2003-06-19 · resigned 2003-07-17

Resigned

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