TEA TIME LANARK LIMITED

🌱Startupactive
SC858343 · ltd · incorporated 2025-08-08
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.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
not disclosed
Net worth
book net assets
Opportunity
67/100
Strong
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What this business does
Primary activity: Unlicenced restaurants and cafes
Sector: Accommodation & food service
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company. Reasonable fundamentals — worth a memo before deciding.

Opportunity 67/100 (strong), bankability 65/100. High owner-dependency — earn-out structure likely required for clean transition. 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 (58/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (57/100)

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
No iXBRL financials extracted
0
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
1 officers (1 active, 1 linked, 1 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
7 connected companies via shared directors
66
Filing history
3 filings
60
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
67/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

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

Business quality
60
Adequate — check latest filings for context.
Acquirability
50
Some acquirability indicators.
Risk profile
77
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
0
filings
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (5 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-11-12
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  2. 2025-11-12
    ✏️
    certificate-change-of-name-company
    change-of-name · CERTNM
  3. 2025-08-08
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As TEA TIME LANARK LIMITED
  4. 2025-08-08
    KNIGHT, Barry Gibb appointed
    director
  5. 2025-08-08
    📄
    incorporation-company
    incorporation · NEWINC

Owner dependency

80/100
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.
  • +Young company: Only 0.8 years old — management layer unlikely to be developed.

Succession & seller-readiness

45/100
Moderate signal

Some succession indicators present. Worth watching; approach if sector/strategy fits.

SIGNALS
  • primarySole active director: Only one director in control. No visible successor — buyers solve the succession problem.

Red flags

1 med ·
Name changed recently
medium

Name changes can be benign (rebrand) but can also precede distress, phoenix activity, or buyer concealment.

Evidence: 2025-11-12: certificate-change-of-name-company

Group structure

B Knight Holdings Limited holds 25-50% — a significant corporate investor but not a controlling parent.

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B Knight Holdings Limited
Corporate parent · holds 25-50% shares · board control
significant stake
TEA TIME LANARK LIMITED
This company · SC858343

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
B Knight Holdings Limited
Corporate entity
2550%
25–50%board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control08/08/2025
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Enzii Investments Limitedceased 07/11/2025· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control

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
Incorporated2025-08-08
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC56102 — Unlicenced restaurants and cafes

Registered office

71 Kilbowie Road
Clydebank
G81 1BL
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-05-08
Last made up to:
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-08-21
Last:

Officers (1 active · 0 resigned)

KNIGHT, Barry Gibb
director · ~48y · appointed 2025-08-08
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Recent filings (3 total)

cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2025-11-12
certificate-change-of-name-company
change-of-name · CERTNM
2025-11-12
incorporation-company
incorporation · NEWINC
2025-08-08