HOUSTON BOTTLING & CO-PACK LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
SC174922 · ltd · incorporated 1997-04-28
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.
Why now
Window closing · medium confidence
Getting harder to buy cheaply — 1 signals strengthening over the last 30 days.
- · Refinance opportunity: clean_up_first → ready
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
- · Oldest live charge 29.0y 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.
- ↑Refinance opportunity: clean_up_first → ready
Last 90 days
No snapshot from 90 days ago — start tracking from today.
Last 180 days
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🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
£5.70M
year to Dec 2025
Net worth
—
book net assets
Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Other food services
Sector: Accommodation & food service
Investor take
PursueStrong opportunity: leverage-led grower with exceptional profile and acceptable with review structure.
Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 70/100. High owner-dependency — earn-out structure likely required for clean transition. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 4 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: strategic trade sale (78/100).
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Refinance opportunity
4 live charges · oldest 29.0y
75/100
ready
Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.
- · Oldest live charge is 29.0 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.
- · Profitable and stable/growing — lender coverage supportable.
Data confidence
Overall: high (89/100)Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.
Company profile
address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
3 years of iXBRL accounts extracted + narrative notes parsed
95
Lenders & charges
4 charges (4/4 with lender, 4/4 with type)
90
Directors & officers
14 officers (4 active, 14 linked, 8 with DOB)
81
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
15 connected companies via shared directors
90
Filing history
137 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.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →Opportunity Score
83/100Exceptional
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
85
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 102Profitable
Profit before tax £21,308
Key financials
3 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102| Metric | 2025-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | 2023-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £5.70M | — | — |
| Gross profit | £1.82M | — | — |
| Operating profit | £4.4k | — | — |
| Profit before tax | £21.3k | — | — |
| Total assets | — | £8.55M | £7.75M |
| Current assets | — | £4.05M | £3.77M |
| Cash | — | £2.88M | £1.45M |
| Debtors | — | £1.01M | £2.12M |
| Net assets | — | £8.08M | £7.21M |
| Average employees | 9700 | — | — |
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.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
1
filing
- • 1 accounts
Last 90 days
1
filing
- • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
1
filing
- • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (47 events)Click to expand
- 2026-05-22📄accounts-with-accounts-type-fullaccounts · AA
- 2025-08-29📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2025-08-29📄memorandum-articlesincorporation · MA
- 2025-08-29📄resolutionresolution · RESOLUTIONS
- 2025-08-29📄capital-variation-of-rights-attached-to-sharescapital · SH10
- 2025-08-29📄capital-name-of-class-of-sharescapital · SH08
- 2025-05-23📄accounts-with-accounts-type-mediumaccounts · AA
- 2024-11-04📄second-filing-of-director-appointment-with-nameofficers · RP04AP01
- 2024-05-31📄accounts-with-accounts-type-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-08-08📄accounts-with-accounts-type-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-06-14📄capital-cancellation-sharescapital · SH06
- 2023-06-14📄capital-return-purchase-own-sharescapital · SH03
- 2023-05-24📄termination-director-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM01
- 2023-05-19➖GRAHAM, Edward Thomas resigneddirector
- 2022-07-26📄accounts-with-accounts-type-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-05-13📄accounts-with-accounts-type-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-12-13📄accounts-with-accounts-type-smallaccounts · AA
- 2019-09-17📄accounts-with-accounts-type-smallaccounts · AA
- 2019-08-08📄resolutionresolution · RESOLUTIONS
- 2018-05-31➕GRAHAM, Edward Thomas appointeddirector
- 2015-02-18➖BARRAL, Colin George resigneddirector
- 2011-01-18➕YACOUBIAN, Paul appointeddirector
- 2011-01-18➕BARRAL, Colin George appointeddirector
- 2009-12-31➖DICKIE, William resigneddirector
- 2008-05-06➕CRAIG, Thomas Kirk appointeddirector
- 2008-03-27➕FINLAY, William Mcturk appointedsecretary
- 2008-03-27➕FINLAY, Bill Mcturk appointedsecretary
- 2008-03-27➖FINLAY, Bill Mcturk resignedsecretary
- 2008-03-27➖ROBB, William Agnew resignedsecretary
- 2008-03-27➖ROBB, William Agnew resigneddirector
- 2007-10-18🔒Charge registered #5Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
- 2002-03-15➕DICKIE, William appointeddirector
- 2001-02-01➕FINLAY, William Mcturk appointeddirector
- 2001-02-01➖YACOUBIAN, Paul resigneddirector
- 2001-01-04🔒Charge registered #4Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
- 1997-06-18🔒Charge registered #3Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
- 1997-06-06➕ROBB, William Agnew appointedsecretary
- 1997-06-06➖BLP SECRETARIES LIMITED resignedcorporate-nominee-secretary
- 1997-06-06➕ROBB, William Agnew appointeddirector
- 1997-06-06➕YACOUBIAN, Paul appointeddirector
- 1997-06-06➖BLP CREATIONS LIMITED resignedcorporate-nominee-director
- 1997-06-06➖BLP FORMATIONS LIMITED resignedcorporate-nominee-director
- 1997-06-06🔒Charge registered #2Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
- 1997-04-28🏢Company incorporatedAs HOUSTON BOTTLING & CO-PACK LIMITED
- 1997-04-28➕BLP SECRETARIES LIMITED appointedcorporate-nominee-secretary
- 1997-04-28➕BLP CREATIONS LIMITED appointedcorporate-nominee-director
- 1997-04-28➕BLP FORMATIONS LIMITED appointedcorporate-nominee-director
Owner dependency
75/100
High — earn-out structure requiredMaterial founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.
FACTORS
- +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 25 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 75 — succession pressure is live.
Succession & seller-readiness
90/100
Likely off-market candidateStrong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 75 years old. Natural succession window is now.
- primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 25 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 29 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
cleanNo 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| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mr Thomas Kirk Craig Individual · British · DOB 04/1951 · age 75 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 06/04/2016 |
Mrs Paula Hannah Margaret Macgee Individual · British · DOB 11/1962 · age 64 | 25–50% | — | 25-50% shares | 06/04/2016 |
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.
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🔒Tailored diligence questions
8 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
Incorporated1997-04-28
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC56290 — Other food services
Registered office
95 Wright Street
Renfrew
Renfrewshire
PA4 8AN
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2027-09-30
Last made up to: 2025-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-09-12
Last: 2025-08-29
Officers (4 active · 10 resigned)
FINLAY, William Mcturk→
Activesecretary · appointed 2008-03-27
View their other companies + combined net worth →
CRAIG, Thomas Kirk→
Activedirector · ~75y · appointed 2008-05-06
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FINLAY, William Mcturk→
Activedirector · ~68y · appointed 2001-02-01
View their other companies + combined net worth →
YACOUBIAN, Paul→
Activedirector · ~66y · appointed 2011-01-18
View their other companies + combined net worth →
FINLAY, Bill Mcturk→
Resignedsecretary · appointed 2008-03-27 · resigned 2008-03-27
ROBB, William Agnew→
Resignedsecretary · appointed 1997-06-06 · resigned 2008-03-27
BLP SECRETARIES LIMITED→
Resignedcorporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1997-04-28 · resigned 1997-06-06
BARRAL, Colin George→
Resigneddirector · ~68y · appointed 2011-01-18 · resigned 2015-02-18
DICKIE, William→
Resigneddirector · ~77y · appointed 2002-03-15 · resigned 2009-12-31
GRAHAM, Edward Thomas→
Resigneddirector · ~70y · appointed 2018-05-31 · resigned 2023-05-19
ROBB, William Agnew→
Resigneddirector · ~88y · appointed 1997-06-06 · resigned 2008-03-27
YACOUBIAN, Paul→
Resigneddirector · ~66y · appointed 1997-06-06 · resigned 2001-02-01
BLP CREATIONS LIMITED→
Resignedcorporate-nominee-director · appointed 1997-04-28 · resigned 1997-06-06
BLP FORMATIONS LIMITED→
Resignedcorporate-nominee-director · appointed 1997-04-28 · resigned 1997-06-06
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Mortgages & charges
4
Total charges
4
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:4 of 4 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Virgin Money Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company | Standard security | 1 property | 18/10/2007 | — | |
| outstanding | Virgin Money Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company | Standard security | 1 property | 04/01/2001 | — | |
| outstanding | Virgin Money Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company | Standard security | 1 property | 18/06/1997 | — | |
| outstanding | Virgin Money Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company | Floating charge | 1 property | 06/06/1997 | — |
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Recent filings (137 total)
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2026-05-22
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-08-29
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-08-29
memorandum-articles
incorporation · MA
2025-08-29
resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2025-08-29
capital-variation-of-rights-attached-to-shares
capital · SH10
2025-08-29
capital-name-of-class-of-shares
capital · SH08
2025-08-29
accounts-with-accounts-type-medium
accounts · AA
2025-05-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-24
second-filing-of-director-appointment-with-name
officers · RP04AP01
2024-11-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2024-05-31
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-08-08
capital-cancellation-shares
capital · SH06
2023-06-14
capital-return-purchase-own-shares
capital · SH03
2023-06-14