MARGIOTTA CATERING LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC334936 · ltd · incorporated 2007-12-06

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 6.1y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Apr 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

82/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Non-specialised wholesale of food, beverages and tobacco

Sector: Wholesale & retail

ALSO REGISTERED FOR

56290Other food services

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 78-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 78). 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 6.1y

85/100

ready

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

· Oldest live charge is 6.1 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (72/100)

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

Lenders & charges

1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)

Directors & officers

8 officers (8 active, 8 linked, 7 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)

Director network

2 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

61 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

82/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

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Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-04-30	2024-04-30
Average employees	1700	1600

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

filings

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 accounts
• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (26 events)Click to expand

2026-02-27
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accounts · AA
2025-04-21
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-01-31
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-07
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change-sail-address-company-with-old-address-new-address
address · AD02
2023-07-04
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change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2023-01-25
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-01-31
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-01-11
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change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2020-09-25
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-05-01
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BROADBENT, David Keith appointed
director
2020-05-01
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WELLS, John Lewis appointed
director
2020-05-01
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officers · AP01
2020-05-01
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2020-04-06
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mortgage · MR01
2020-03-27
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Hsbc UK Bank PLC
2020-01-30
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-02-01
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-01-17
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change-sail-address-company-with-old-address-new-address
address · AD02
2018-02-02
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2010-10-13
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MARGIOTTA, Caterina appointed
director
2008-08-02
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MARGIOTTA, Elena Francessca appointed
director
2007-12-06
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Company incorporated
As MARGIOTTA CATERING LIMITED
2007-12-06
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MARGIOTTA, Franco appointed
secretary
2007-12-06
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MARGIOTTA, Franco appointed
director
2007-12-06
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MARGIOTTA, Joseph Ross appointed
director
2007-12-06
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MARGIOTTA, Luisa Margaret appointed
director

Owner dependency

88/100

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

-7 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "MARGIOTTA" — strong identity link between founder and business.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 18 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 78 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

83/100

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 78 years old. Natural succession window is now.
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.)

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2007-12-06

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC46390 — Non-specialised wholesale of food, beverages and tobacco

Registered office

1 Cliftonhall Industrial Estate

Newbridge Industrial Estate

Newbridge

EH28 8PJ

Scotland

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-01-31

Last made up to: 2025-04-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-12-20

Last: 2025-12-06