DAMN DELICIOUS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC334088 · ltd · incorporated 2007-11-19
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 6.6y old — refinance window within 12 months
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Retail sale of meat and meat products in specialised stores
Sector: Wholesale & retail
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 60-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 60). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 6.6y

85/100
ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

  • · Oldest live charge is 6.6 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

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, 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
4 officers (3 active, 4 linked, 2 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
47 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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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Average employees13001300

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (22 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-11-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-12-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  3. 2023-12-18
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    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-11-22
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  5. 2022-12-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  6. 2021-12-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  7. 2021-02-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  8. 2019-10-07
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  9. 2019-09-30
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  10. 2019-07-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  11. 2018-10-29
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    accounts · AA
  12. 2017-11-27
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    accounts · AA
  13. 2016-12-02
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    accounts · AA
  14. 2016-11-11
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    capital · SH01
  15. 2015-11-26
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    annual-return · AR01
  16. 2015-07-14
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    accounts · AA
  17. 2011-10-01
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    SHANNON, Michelle Dawn appointed
    director
  18. 2008-11-19
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    SHANNON, Michael William appointed
    secretary
  19. 2008-11-19
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    TWEEDIE, Peter David resigned
    secretary
  20. 2007-11-19
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    Company incorporated
    As DAMN DELICIOUS LIMITED
  21. 2007-11-19
    ➕
    SHANNON, Michael William appointed
    director
  22. 2007-11-19
    ➕
    TWEEDIE, Peter David appointed
    secretary

Owner dependency

84/100
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 18 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 60 — approaching natural succession window.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

69/100
Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS
  • secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 60. Early succession window.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 18 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 18 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
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Michael William Shannon
Individual · British · DOB 06/1966 · age 60
50–75%
50–75%board control50-75% shares · 50-75% voting · board control19/11/2016

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
Incorporated2007-11-19
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC47220 — Retail sale of meat and meat products in specialised stores

Registered office

Elmswood
Thankerton Camp Farm
Thankerton
Biggar Lanarkshire
ML12 6PD

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-12-03
Last: 2025-11-19

Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)

SHANNON, Michael William→
secretary · appointed 2008-11-19
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Active
SHANNON, Michael William→
director · ~60y · appointed 2007-11-19
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Active
SHANNON, Michelle Dawn→
director · ~57y · appointed 2011-10-01
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Active
TWEEDIE, Peter David→
secretary · appointed 2007-11-19 · resigned 2008-11-19
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
A registered charge—30/09/2019—
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Recent filings (47 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-01-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2025-11-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2024-12-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-11-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2023-12-18
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-11-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-11-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2022-12-16
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-12-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2021-12-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-11-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2021-02-04
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-12-14
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-11-29
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2019-10-07