JOE COOL (UK) LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC081799 · ltd · incorporated 1983-02-14
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.
Why now
Window closing · medium confidence
Getting harder to buy — profile has hardened into "well run hard buy" recently.
  • · Investment thesis: unclassified → well_run_hard_buy
  • · Deal-killer verdict: workable → clean
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 23.6y old — refinance window within 12 months
What changed my view
Last 30 days

Picture improved over the last 30 days — 1 positive signal vs 0 negative.

  • ·Investment thesis: unclassified → well_run_hard_buy
  • ↑Deal-killer verdict: workable → clean
Last 90 days

No snapshot from 90 days ago — start tracking from today.

Last 180 days

No snapshot from 180 days ago — start tracking from today.

🔒Estimated value
—
Upgrade to see
Turnover
—
year to Jan 2026
Net worth
£185.1k
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
🔔
Follow this company (free)
Email alerts on filings, charges, director changes, gazette notices. No account needed.

Unsubscribe any time from any email. GDPR-respectful.

🔒Generate AI memo →🔒Outreach pack →🔒Corporate story →📑 Reports →Sign in to watch
What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 32130
Sector: Manufacturing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 77-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (73/100, director aged 77). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

🏦

Refinance opportunity

3 live charges · oldest 23.6y

65/100
clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

  • · Oldest live charge is 23.6 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

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
4 officers (4 active, 4 linked, 3 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
5 connected companies via shared directors
60
Filing history
103 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 £185,088
Cash YoY
+92%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£97k
↑ 92% YoY
Net Worth
£185k
↑ 2.8% YoY
Current Assets
£251k
↑ 6.3% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
£0£50k£101k£151k£201k£251kJan 2025Jan 2026

Hover to see exact values · click legend to toggle series

Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2026-01-312025-01-31
Total assets£187.5k£184.7k
Current assets£251.5k£236.7k
Cash£96.9k£50.4k
Debtors£73.9k£99.5k
Net assets£185.1k£180.0k

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

See pricing →

Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-06-04
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-09-16
    ➕
    MALCOLM-WATTS, William Joseph Guy appointed
    director
  3. 2025-09-16
    📄
    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  4. 2025-08-20
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2024-10-14
    📄
    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  6. 2024-10-14
    📄
    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  7. 2024-10-08
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2023-10-09
    📄
    mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
    mortgage · MR04
  9. 2023-10-09
    📄
    mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
    mortgage · MR04
  10. 2023-10-09
    🔓
    Charge satisfied #3
  11. 2023-10-09
    🔓
    Charge satisfied #2
  12. 2023-06-21
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2022-05-19
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2021-05-17
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  15. 2020-07-16
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  16. 2019-05-10
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  17. 2018-06-20
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  18. 2017-08-04
    📄
    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  19. 2017-08-01
    ➕
    MALCOLM, Katharine Margaret appointed
    director
  20. 2017-05-18
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  21. 2007-09-12
    🔒
    Charge registered #3
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  22. 2003-11-04
    🔒
    Charge registered #2
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  23. 2002-11-29
    🔒
    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  24. 1983-02-14
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As JOE COOL (UK) LIMITED

Owner dependency

65/100
High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 77 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

60/100
Strong succession signal

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 77 years old. Natural succession window is now.

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 James Michael John Watts
Individual · British · DOB 08/1949 · age 77
25–50%
25–50%board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control25/10/2016
Ms Katharine Margaret Malcolm
Individual · British · DOB 04/1962 · age 64
25–50%
25–50%board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control06/04/2016

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

🔒Co-director network graph

Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

See pricing →

Similar companies

Active · Manufacturing · KY postcode area
CompanyEst. valueTurnoverNet worthStaffAgeOppDirector
FTV PROCLAD (U.K.) LIMITED→
SC271316 · est 2004
———4221y8566y
FCE HYDRAULICS LTD→
SC191289 · est 1998
——£655.5k—27y8368y
PR2 ENGINEERING LIMITED→
SC278634 · est 2005 · no financials extracted
————21y8360y
STONE MARINE SERVICES LIMITED→
SC202418 · est 1999
——£2.02M—26y8375y
TEN 47 LIMITED→
SC216186 · est 2001
——£4.37M—25y8361y
AXYZ ENGINEERING LIMITED→
SC222810 · est 2001
——£552.4k—24y8265y
BELLISTON QUARRY COMPANY LTD. (THE)→
SC022558 · est 1943 · no financials extracted
————82y8294y
CONTRACT SOLUTIONS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED→
SC305000 · est 2006 · no financials extracted
————19y8275y
COOLFORCE LIMITED→
SC204027 · est 2000
———026y8261y
DAVID L DOUGLAS LIMITED→
SC385357 · est 2010
———170015y8270y
EDEN ILLUMINATION LTD→
SC365181 · est 2009
——£38.6k—16y8269y
G.S. BROWN (PRECISION ENGINEERS) LIMITED→
SC137707 · est 1992
———200034y8273y
Peers ranked by estimated value, then turnover, then opportunity score.See all →
🔒Tailored diligence questions

7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

See pricing →
🔒Advanced scoring suite

Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

See pricing →

Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1983-02-14
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC32130 — SIC 32130

Registered office

Unit 25
Cupar Trading Estate
Cupar
Fife
KY15 4SX

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-10-31
Last made up to: 2026-01-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-12-14
Last: 2025-11-30

Officers (4 active · 0 resigned)

MALCOLM, Katharine Margaret→
secretary
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MALCOLM, Katharine Margaret→
director · ~64y · appointed 2017-08-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
MALCOLM-WATTS, William Joseph Guy→
director · ~39y · appointed 2025-09-16
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
WATTS, James Michael John→
director · ~77y
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active

Click a director name to see their full track record across all companies.

Mortgages & charges

3
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:3 of 3 shown
TypeProperties
satisfied
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Standard security1 property12/09/200709/10/2023
satisfied
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Standard security1 property04/11/200309/10/2023
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Bond & floating charge1 property29/11/2002—
Click column headers to sort. Use filters above to narrow by status and lender.

Recent filings (103 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-06-04
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-01-06
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2025-09-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-08-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-09
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2024-10-14
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2024-10-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-10-08
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-12-20
mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2023-10-09
mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2023-10-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-06-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-12-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-05-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-01-05