CELEBRATIONS SHOP LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC513010 · ltd · incorporated 2015-08-13

Investment thesis

Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.

Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.

Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.

Opportunity decay

hardening · 12-months

Already tight — no obvious softening catalysts on the horizon.

· Thesis: well-run, low negotiation leverage

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

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year to Aug 2024

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

79/100

Strong

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What this business does

Primary activity: Other retail sale in non-specialised stores

Sector: Wholesale & retail

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 67-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 79/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 67). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (78/100)

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

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

2 officers (2 active, 2 linked, 2 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared

Director network

Network not yet resolved

Filing history

23 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

79/100Strong

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

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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Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2024-08-31	2023-08-31
Average employees	300	300

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 officers
• 1 persons-with-significant-control

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (16 events)Click to expand

2025-11-07
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-11-07
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-05-28
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accounts · AA
2024-07-03
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accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-05-30
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accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-08-24
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accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-05-28
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accounts · AA
2020-05-27
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accounts · AA
2019-12-11
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BLAIR, Laura Anne appointed
director
2019-12-11
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officers · AP01
2019-06-03
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accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2018-06-01
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accounts-with-accounts-type-unaudited-abridged
accounts · AA
2017-05-01
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accounts · AA
2015-08-13
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Company incorporated
As CELEBRATIONS SHOP LIMITED
2015-08-13
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BROWN, Lesley Anne appointed
director
2015-08-13
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incorporation-company
incorporation · NEWINC

Owner dependency

78/100

High — earn-out structure required

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

FACTORS

+Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 67 — succession pressure is live.
+No director turnover: Company is 11 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.

Succession & seller-readiness

61/100

Strong succession signal

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

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.
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%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mrs Lesley Anne Brown Individual · British · DOB 02/1959 · age 67	75–100%	—	75-100% shares	12/08/2016

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

Incorporated2015-08-13

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC47190 — Other retail sale in non-specialised stores

Registered office

31 Market Street

Haddington

East Lothian

EH41 3JE

United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-05-31

Last made up to: 2024-08-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-08-26

Last: 2025-08-12

Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)

BLAIR, Laura Anne→

director · ~41y · appointed 2019-12-11

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Active

BROWN, Lesley Anne→

director · ~67y · appointed 2015-08-13

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Active

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Recent filings (23 total)

change-person-director-company-with-change-date

officers · CH01

2025-11-07

change-to-a-person-with-significant-control

persons-with-significant-control · PSC04

2025-11-07