LILAC ROOM LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC080557 · ltd · incorporated 1982-10-25
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
£-13.8k
book net assets
Opportunity
79/100
Strong
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What this business does
Primary activity: Hairdressing and other beauty treatment
Sector: Other service activities
Investor take
Pass (distressed without resilience)
Distressed active trading company — structural issues outweigh the discount.

Opportunity 79/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 66). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (71/100)

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
75
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
6 officers (3 active, 6 linked, 5 with DOB)
87
Ownership & PSC
No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)
35
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
89 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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 105 (micro)
Negative net assets
Liabilities exceed assets by £13,845

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
-£14k
↓ 22% YoY
Current Assets
£23k
↓ 11% YoY
Current Liabilities
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-£14k-£6k£2k£10k£17k£25kNov 2023Nov 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 105 (micro)
Metric2024-11-302023-11-30
Total assets£-13.8k£-11.4k
Current assets£22.5k£25.2k
Net assets£-13.8k£-11.4k

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 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (19 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-07-01
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  2. 2024-05-22
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  3. 2023-04-20
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  4. 2022-04-07
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  5. 2021-04-23
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  6. 2020-03-19
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  7. 2019-03-11
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  8. 2018-03-29
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  9. 2017-03-02
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  10. 2016-03-14
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  11. 2015-12-18
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  12. 2015-02-19
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  13. 2014-12-09
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  14. 2014-02-04
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  15. 2013-12-23
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  16. 1994-11-14
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    O'DONNELL, John resigned
    director
  17. 1992-11-01
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    O'DONNELL, George resigned
    director
  18. 1992-08-03
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    O'DONNELL, Catherine Anderson resigned
    director
  19. 1982-10-25
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    Company incorporated
    As LILAC ROOM LIMITED

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 66 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

66/100
Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 66. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 44 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.

Red flags

clean
No red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)
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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1982-10-25
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC96020 — Hairdressing and other beauty treatment

Registered office

23 Dunlop Street
Renfrew
Renfrewshire
PA4 8PG

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-08-31
Last made up to: 2024-11-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-12-14
Last: 2025-11-30

Officers (3 active · 3 resigned)

KANE, Janette→
secretary
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Active
KANE, Janette→
director · ~66y
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Active
O'DONNELL, Catherine Devlin→
director · ~63y
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Active
O'DONNELL, Catherine Anderson→
director · ~96y · resigned 1992-08-03
Resigned
O'DONNELL, George→
director · ~72y · resigned 1992-11-01
Resigned
O'DONNELL, John→
director · ~99y · resigned 1994-11-14
Resigned

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Recent filings (89 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-12-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-07-01
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-05-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-12-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-04-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-12-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-04-07
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-12-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-04-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-12-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2020-03-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-12-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2019-03-11
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2018-12-24