COOLMAR KELLS LTD

🌳Matureactive
NI636385 · ltd · incorporated 2016-02-11
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 10.1y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Apr 2025
Net worth
£167.7k
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Other retail sale of food in specialised stores
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
Pursue
Strong opportunity: active trading company with exceptional profile and bankable structure.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. High owner-dependency — earn-out structure likely required for clean transition. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

3 live charges · oldest 10.1y

85/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 10.1 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (81/100)

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
3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)
90
Directors & officers
2 officers (2 active, 2 linked, 2 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
3 connected companies via shared directors
54
Filing history
25 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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £167,701
Net assets shrinking
Down £7,662 YoY
Cash YoY
+9%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£401k
↑ 9.2% YoY
Net Worth
£168k
↓ 4.4% YoY
Current Assets
£619k
↑ 8.0% YoY
Current Liabilities
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£0£124k£247k£371k£495k£619kApr 2024Apr 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-04-302024-04-30
Total assets£179.0k£203.1k
Current assets£618.6k£572.5k
Cash£401.1k£367.2k
Debtors£71.4k£63.7k
Net assets£167.7k£175.4k

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

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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
2
filings
  • • 1 mortgage
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 mortgage
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (21 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-04-02
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    mortgage · MR01
  2. 2026-04-01
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    Charge registered #3
    Lender: Musgrave Retail Partners NI Limited
  3. 2025-07-29
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  4. 2024-11-18
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  5. 2024-01-29
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  6. 2022-12-23
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  7. 2021-12-30
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  8. 2021-07-09
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    mortgage · MR01
  9. 2021-07-07
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Musgrave Retail Partners NI Limited
  10. 2020-09-03
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    accounts · AA
  11. 2019-12-12
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    accounts · AA
  12. 2019-02-25
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    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  13. 2019-01-30
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  14. 2017-11-07
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  15. 2017-08-14
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    accounts · AA01
  16. 2016-04-19
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    mortgage · MR01
  17. 2016-04-18
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Musgrave Retail Partners NI Limited
  18. 2016-02-11
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    Company incorporated
    As COOLMAR KELLS LTD
  19. 2016-02-11
    ➕
    HENRY, Marie Jacqueline appointed
    director
  20. 2016-02-11
    ➕
    MCCOOL, Peter Gerard appointed
    director
  21. 2016-02-11
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    incorporation · NEWINC

Owner dependency

71/100
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.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 63 — approaching natural succession window.
  • +No director turnover: Company is 10 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.

Succession & seller-readiness

61/100
Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 63. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • 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

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Peter Gerard Mccool
Individual · Irish · DOB 01/1963 · age 63
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/04/2016
Ms Marie Jacqueline Henry
Individual · Irish · DOB 08/1970 · age 56
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016

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
Incorporated2016-02-11
Jurisdictionnorthern-ireland
Primary SIC47290 — Other retail sale of food in specialised stores

Registered office

14 Antrim Road
Ballymena
County Antrim
BT42 2BJ
Northern Ireland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-01-31
Last made up to: 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-20
Last: 2026-03-06

Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)

HENRY, Marie Jacqueline→
director · ~56y · appointed 2016-02-11
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Active
MCCOOL, Peter Gerard→
director · ~63y · appointed 2016-02-11
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Active

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Mortgages & charges

3
Total charges
3
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:3 of 3 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Musgrave Retail Partners NI
Musgrave Retail Partners NI Limited
A registered charge—01/04/2026—
outstanding
Musgrave Retail Partners NI
Musgrave Retail Partners NI Limited
A registered charge1 property07/07/2021—
outstanding
Musgrave Retail Partners NI
Musgrave Retail Partners NI Limited
A registered charge—18/04/2016—
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Recent filings (25 total)

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mortgage · MR01
2026-04-02
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-07-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-11-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-01-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-02-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-02-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2021-12-30
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2021-07-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-02-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2020-09-03
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-02-12