THE MUSTARD SEED (RESTAURANTS) LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC206532 · ltd · incorporated 2000-04-20
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 steady · low confidence
Stable recent picture — watch for any upcoming trigger event.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 24.9y old — refinance window within 12 months
What changed my view
Last 30 days

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🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
£2.45M
year to Sept 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Licenced restaurants
Sector: Accommodation & food service
Investor take
Pursue
Conservative operator with a 67-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 67). 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: strategic trade sale (78/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 24.9y

60/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 24.9 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.
  • · Profitable and stable/growing — lender coverage supportable.

Data confidence

Overall: high (88/100)

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
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
7 officers (3 active, 7 linked, 4 with DOB)
81
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
11 connected companies via shared directors
78
Filing history
98 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.

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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 · accounting standard not declared
Profitable
Profit before tax £66,358

Key financials

3 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Sept 2023Sept 2024Sept 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-09-302024-09-302023-09-30
Turnover£2.45M——
Gross profit£1.54M——
Operating profit£66.2k——
Profit before tax£66.4k——
Average employees430043003700

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
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 accounts
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (32 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-06-19
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  2. 2025-06-26
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  3. 2024-06-24
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  4. 2024-05-16
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    mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
    mortgage · MR04
  5. 2024-05-16
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    Charge satisfied #1
  6. 2024-04-11
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  7. 2024-04-08
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    ROBERTSON, Christine Margaret resigned
    director
  8. 2023-06-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2023-03-06
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  10. 2023-03-06
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  11. 2023-03-06
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  12. 2023-03-06
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  13. 2023-03-06
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  15. 2023-03-06
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    address · AD01
  16. 2022-07-07
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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  17. 2021-06-22
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  18. 2020-11-20
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  19. 2020-01-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  20. 2018-01-01
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    ROBERTSON, Christine Margaret appointed
    director
  21. 2007-12-31
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  22. 2004-04-20
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    MELLON, John Peter resigned
    director
  23. 2001-09-04
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
  24. 2001-06-14
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    MELLON, John Peter appointed
    director
  25. 2001-04-19
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    LEDINGHAM CHALMERS resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  26. 2000-12-19
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    CAMERON, Catriona Elizabeth appointed
    secretary
  27. 2000-12-19
    ➕
    CAMERON, Catriona Elizabeth appointed
    director
  28. 2000-05-17
    ➕
    LITTLEJOHN, Simon Howard appointed
    director
  29. 2000-05-17
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    DURANO LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director
  30. 2000-04-20
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    Company incorporated
    As THE MUSTARD SEED (RESTAURANTS) LIMITED
  31. 2000-04-20
    ➕
    LEDINGHAM CHALMERS appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  32. 2000-04-20
    ➕
    DURANO LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

83/100
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
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 26 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 67 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

86/100
Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 67. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 26 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 26 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.)

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Simon Howard Littlejohn
Individual · British · DOB 01/1959 · age 67
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016
Mrs Catriona Elizabeth Cameron
Individual · British · DOB 09/1965 · age 61
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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7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2000-04-20
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC56101 — Licenced restaurants

Registered office

Unit 9 Rfl House
Anderson Street
Dunblane
Stirlingshire
FK15 6AJ
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-06-30
Last made up to: 2025-09-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-21
Last: 2026-04-07

Officers (3 active · 4 resigned)

CAMERON, Catriona Elizabeth→
secretary · appointed 2000-12-19
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
CAMERON, Catriona Elizabeth→
director · ~61y · appointed 2000-12-19
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
LITTLEJOHN, Simon Howard→
director · ~67y · appointed 2000-05-17
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
LEDINGHAM CHALMERS→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2000-04-20 · resigned 2001-04-19
Resigned
MELLON, John Peter→
director · ~63y · appointed 2001-06-14 · resigned 2004-04-20
Resigned
ROBERTSON, Christine Margaret→
director · ~69y · appointed 2018-01-01 · resigned 2024-04-08
Resigned
DURANO LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2000-04-20 · resigned 2000-05-17
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Bond & floating charge1 property31/12/2007—
satisfied
Lloyds Banking Group
The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
Standard security1 property04/09/200116/05/2024
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Recent filings (98 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-06-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-06-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-06-24
mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2024-05-16
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-11
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2024-04-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-06-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-04-26
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-03-06
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-03-06
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2023-03-06
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-03-06
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-03-06