ANDREW COOK (CONTAINERS) LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC125144 · ltd · incorporated 1990-05-22
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 Sept 2024
Net worth
£457.3k
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 38210
Sector: Water supply & waste
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 94-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 94). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Cash flow review and working-capital discipline. Cash down -37% YoY — forensic review of receivables, stock turns, and creditor days. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 35.4y

45/100
under pressure

Refinance would be pressure-driven, not opportunity-driven. Expect tighter margins and covenant scrutiny.

  • · Oldest live charge is 35.4 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Cashflow trend is negative — lender view likely cautious.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (73/100)

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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
6 officers (5 active, 6 linked, 5 with DOB)
87
Ownership & PSC
No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)
35
Director network
7 connected companies via shared directors
66
Filing history
91 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
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
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102
Positive net assets
Net assets £457,297
Net assets shrinking
Down £33,690 YoY
Cash YoY
-37%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£99k
↓ 37% YoY
Net Worth
£457k
↓ 6.9% YoY
Current Assets
£319k
↓ 16% YoY
Current Liabilities
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£0£98k£196k£295k£393k£491kSept 2023Sept 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-09-302023-09-30
Total assets£537.6k£608.5k
Current assets£318.6k£377.1k
Cash£98.9k£155.7k
Debtors£219.7k£221.3k
Net assets£457.3k£491.0k

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
0
filings
Last 90 days
2
filings
  • • 2 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 2 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-06-16
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  2. 2025-03-05
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    officers · TM01
  3. 2025-01-03
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  4. 2025-01-03
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    officers · CH01
  5. 2024-06-10
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2024-03-27
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    COOK, Jean resigned
    director
  7. 2023-06-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2022-06-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2022-04-29
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  10. 2021-04-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2020-06-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2019-02-07
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  13. 2018-07-03
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  14. 2018-02-16
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    accounts · AA
  15. 2018-02-13
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    capital · SH01
  16. 2013-10-01
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    WEDDERBURN, Charlene appointed
    director
  17. 1997-07-24
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    COOK, Alastair Andrew appointed
    director
  18. 1997-07-24
    ➕
    COOK, Alexander appointed
    director
  19. 1990-11-26
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  20. 1990-05-22
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    Company incorporated
    As ANDREW COOK (CONTAINERS) LIMITED
  21. 1990-05-22
    ➕
    COOK, Andrew appointed
    secretary
  22. 1990-05-22
    ➕
    COOK, Andrew appointed
    director
  23. 1990-05-22
    ➕
    COOK, Jean appointed
    director

Owner dependency

88/100
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
  • -4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
  • +Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "COOK" — strong identity link between founder and business.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 36 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 94 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

90/100
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 94 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 36 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 36 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.)
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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1990-05-22
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC38210 — SIC 38210

Registered office

Scoonie Park
Leven
Fife
KY8 4TD

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-06-30
Last made up to: 2024-09-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-31
Last: 2026-03-17

Officers (5 active · 1 resigned)

COOK, Andrew→
secretary · appointed 1990-05-22
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Active
COOK, Alastair Andrew→
director · ~61y · appointed 1997-07-24
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Active
COOK, Alexander→
director · ~64y · appointed 1997-07-24
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Active
COOK, Andrew→
director · ~94y · appointed 1990-05-22
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Active
WEDDERBURN, Charlene→
director · ~42y · appointed 2013-10-01
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Active
COOK, Jean→
director · ~97y · appointed 1990-05-22 · resigned 2024-03-27
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Bond & floating charge1 property26/11/1990—
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Recent filings (91 total)

confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-02-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-06-16
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-06
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2025-03-05
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-01-03
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-01-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-06-10
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-02-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-06-16
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-02-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-06-17
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2022-04-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-02-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-04-27