LAZY DAY FOODS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC298222 · ltd · incorporated 2006-03-06
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.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 18.1y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Apr 2025
Net worth
£2.52M
book net assets
Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 10612
Sector: Manufacturing
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 10710Manufacture of bread; manufacture of fresh pastry goods and cakes
  • 10720SIC 10720
  • 10821SIC 10821
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 71-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 71). 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).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · oldest 18.1y

65/100
clean up first

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 18.1 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 (82/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile
address, 4 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 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
10 connected companies via shared directors
75
Filing history
64 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
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 · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £2,524,554
Cash YoY
+14%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£853k
↑ 14% YoY
Net Worth
£2.5m
↑ 19% YoY
Current Assets
—
Current Liabilities
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£0£505k£1.0m£1.5m£2.0m£2.5mMar 2024Apr 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-04-062024-03-31
Cash£852.9k£748.1k
Net assets£2.52M£2.12M

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

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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
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filings
Last 90 days
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filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (22 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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  2. 2024-12-19
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  3. 2023-12-19
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  4. 2023-06-08
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  5. 2023-06-08
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  6. 2022-06-29
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  7. 2021-12-09
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    accounts · AA
  8. 2021-04-27
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  9. 2020-12-23
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  10. 2019-12-19
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  11. 2019-06-19
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  12. 2019-06-14
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  13. 2018-12-19
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  14. 2017-12-20
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  15. 2017-05-05
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    address · AD01
  16. 2016-08-05
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Bank of Scotland PLC
  17. 2011-08-14
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    KILSHAW OBE, David Charles appointed
    director
  18. 2008-03-08
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Bank of Scotland PLC
  19. 2006-03-06
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    Company incorporated
    As LAZY DAY FOODS LIMITED
  20. 2006-03-06
    ➕
    BEATTIE, Sally Heather, Dr appointed
    secretary
  21. 2006-03-06
    ➕
    BEATTIE, Sally Heather, Dr appointed
    director
  22. 2006-03-06
    ➕
    BUSTARD, Emer Ann appointed
    director

Owner dependency

75/100
High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 20 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 71 — succession pressure is live.

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 71 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 20 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 20 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
Mrs Emer Ann Bustard
Individual · Irish · DOB 09/1972 · age 54
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016
Dr Sally Heather Beattie
Individual · British · DOB 09/1970 · age 56
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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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2006-03-06
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC10612 — SIC 10612

Registered office

1 Mossburn Avenue
Harthill
Shotts
North Lanarkshire
ML7 5PX
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-04-06
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-06-13
Last: 2025-05-30

Officers (4 active · 0 resigned)

BEATTIE, Sally Heather, Dr→
secretary · appointed 2006-03-06
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Active
BEATTIE, Sally Heather, Dr→
director · ~56y · appointed 2006-03-06
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Active
BUSTARD, Emer Ann→
director · ~54y · appointed 2006-03-06
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Active
KILSHAW OBE, David Charles→
director · ~71y · appointed 2011-08-14
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Active

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
2
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
Bank of Scotland PLC
A registered charge1 property05/08/2016—
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
Bank of Scotland PLC
Bond & floating charge1 property08/03/2008—
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Recent filings (64 total)

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accounts · AA
2025-12-23
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-06-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-19
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-05-31
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-19
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-06-08
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-06-08
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-06-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-06-29
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-05-30
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-05-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-12-09
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-04-27
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2021-04-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-12-23