CORPORATE CATERING SERVICES (N.I.) LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
NI057271 · ltd · incorporated 2005-11-18
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.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Nov 2024
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Event catering activities
Sector: Accommodation & food service
Investor take
Pursue
Conservative operator with a 72-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 72). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (78/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (69/100)

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
1 year of iXBRL accounts extracted (no YoY comparison) + narrative notes parsed
50
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 3 with DOB)
82
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
45 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

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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
80
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102
Profitable
Profit before tax £325,635

Key financials

1 year extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
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Current Liabilities
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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-11-30
Profit before tax£325.6k
Average employees5000

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

3 signals 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
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filings
Last 90 days
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filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-11-28
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    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-10-15
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    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-10-14
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    address · AD01
  4. 2023-10-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-09-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2021-09-02
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2020-12-03
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2019-09-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2018-08-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2018-01-26
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  11. 2017-09-05
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    accounts · AA
  12. 2016-09-19
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    accounts · AA
  13. 2016-01-14
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    annual-return · AR01
  14. 2015-09-09
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    accounts · AA
  15. 2014-12-22
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    annual-return · AR01
  16. 2005-11-18
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    Company incorporated
    As CORPORATE CATERING SERVICES (N.I.) LIMITED
  17. 2005-11-18
    ➕
    TAAFFE, Anne Pauline appointed
    secretary
  18. 2005-11-18
    ➕
    HEALY, Mary Ellen appointed
    director
  19. 2005-11-18
    ➕
    TAAFFE, Anne Pauline appointed
    director
  20. 2005-11-18
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    ICC TRUST & CORPORATE SERVICES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-secretary
  21. 2005-11-18
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    ICC TRUST & CORPORATE SERVICES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-secretary
  22. 2005-11-18
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    ROCK, Jon appointed
    director
  23. 2005-11-18
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    ROCK, Jon resigned
    director

Owner dependency

83/100
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 21 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 72 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

96/100
Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 72 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 21 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 21 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

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mary Healy
Individual · Irish · DOB 05/1954 · age 72
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control06/04/2016

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
Incorporated2005-11-18
Jurisdictionnorthern-ireland
Primary SIC56210 — Event catering activities

Registered office

Grand Central Station
Platform 8
90-92 Grosvenor Road
Belfast
BT12 5AX
Northern Ireland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-08-31
Last made up to: 2024-11-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-06-05
Last: 2025-05-22

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

TAAFFE, Anne Pauline→
secretary · appointed 2005-11-18
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HEALY, Mary Ellen→
director · ~72y · appointed 2005-11-18
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
TAAFFE, Anne Pauline→
director · ~54y · appointed 2005-11-18
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
ICC TRUST & CORPORATE SERVICES LIMITED→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2005-11-18 · resigned 2005-11-18
Resigned
ROCK, Jon→
director · ~76y · appointed 2005-11-18 · resigned 2005-11-18
Resigned

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Recent filings (45 total)

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accounts · AA
2025-11-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-05-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-10-15
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2024-10-14
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-12-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-10-25
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-12-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-09-01
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-12-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-09-02
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-03-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-12-03
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-01-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-09-04