THE COCOA TREE SHOP LTD

💤Zombieactive
SC309783 · ltd · incorporated 2006-10-06
Investment thesis
Zombie company — trading but stalled; unlikely mover.
Why interesting: Quiet, steady; could be a succession or carve-out candidate with the right conversation.
Why risky: No growth signal; thin margin for error on price.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Oct 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Unlicenced restaurants and cafes
Sector: Accommodation & food service
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 56290Other food services
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 65-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 65). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Broaden director team. Sole director creates succession risk and reduces buyer comfort. Appoint a second director or strong #2. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 3.6y

35/100
under pressure

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

  • · Charge age ~3.6 years — mid-life; refi window approaching.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Distress signals active — lender appetite narrows.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (77/100)

Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.

Company profile
address, 2 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 (1 active, 6 linked, 3 with DOB)
80
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
58 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.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Oct 2024Oct 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-10-312024-10-31
Average employees23002400

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.

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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 (28 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-05-13
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-07-07
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-07-12
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-06-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-11-11
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  6. 2022-10-28
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Allica Bank Limited
  7. 2022-05-09
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2021-09-06
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  9. 2021-08-30
    ➖
    LATINIS, Maxine Jacqueline resigned
    director
  10. 2021-07-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2020-06-08
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2019-07-02
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    appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP01
  13. 2019-07-01
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    LATINIS, Maxine Jacqueline appointed
    director
  14. 2019-06-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  15. 2018-10-12
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  16. 2018-05-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  17. 2017-10-11
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  18. 2017-07-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  19. 2014-07-21
    ➖
    WALKER, Christopher Michael resigned
    secretary
  20. 2014-07-10
    ➖
    WALKER, Christopher Michael resigned
    director
  21. 2013-05-28
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    WALKER, Christopher Michael appointed
    director
  22. 2006-10-06
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    Company incorporated
    As THE COCOA TREE SHOP LTD
  23. 2006-10-06
    ➕
    LATINIS, Sophie Rosane Michel appointed
    director
  24. 2006-10-06
    ➕
    WALKER, Christopher Michael appointed
    secretary
  25. 2006-10-06
    ➕
    HOGG JOHNSTON SECRETARIES LTD. appointed
    corporate-secretary
  26. 2006-10-06
    ➖
    HOGG JOHNSTON SECRETARIES LTD. resigned
    corporate-secretary
  27. 2006-10-06
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    HOGG JOHNSTON DIRECTORS LTD. appointed
    corporate-director
  28. 2006-10-06
    ➖
    HOGG JOHNSTON DIRECTORS LTD. resigned
    corporate-director

Owner dependency

100/100
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
  • +Sole director: Only one active director — all governance concentrated on one person.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 20 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 65 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

88/100
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 65. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
  • primarySole active director: Only one director in control. No visible successor — buyers solve the succession problem.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 20 years.
  • 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

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Ms Sophie Rosane Michel Latinis
Individual · Belgian · DOB 01/1961 · age 65
75–100%
75–100%board controlsig. influence75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control · significant influence · firm interest06/10/2016

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
Incorporated2006-10-06
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC56102 — Unlicenced restaurants and cafes

Registered office

9 High Street
Pittenweem
Fife
KY10 2LA

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-07-31
Last made up to: 2025-10-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-10-20
Last: 2025-10-06

Officers (1 active · 5 resigned)

LATINIS, Sophie Rosane Michel→
director · ~65y · appointed 2006-10-06
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
WALKER, Christopher Michael→
secretary · appointed 2006-10-06 · resigned 2014-07-21
Resigned
HOGG JOHNSTON SECRETARIES LTD.→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2006-10-06 · resigned 2006-10-06
Resigned
LATINIS, Maxine Jacqueline→
director · ~34y · appointed 2019-07-01 · resigned 2021-08-30
Resigned
WALKER, Christopher Michael→
director · ~65y · appointed 2013-05-28 · resigned 2014-07-10
Resigned
HOGG JOHNSTON DIRECTORS LTD.→
corporate-director · appointed 2006-10-06 · resigned 2006-10-06
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Allica Bank
Allica Bank Limited
A registered charge—28/10/2022—
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Recent filings (58 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-05-13
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-10-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-07-07
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-10-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-07-12
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-10-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-06-23
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2022-11-11
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-10-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-05-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-10-11
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2021-09-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-07-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-10-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-06-08