LAZY DAY FOODS LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
SC298222 · ltd · incorporated 2006-03-06
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 18.1y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Apr 2025
Net worth
£2.52M
book net assets
Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 10612
Sector: Manufacturing
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
- 10710Manufacture of bread; manufacture of fresh pastry goods and cakes
- 10720SIC 10720
- 10821SIC 10821
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 71-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 71). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).
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Refinance opportunity
2 live charges · oldest 18.1y
65/100
clean up first
Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.
- · Oldest live charge is 18.1 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
- · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.
Data confidence
Overall: high (82/100)Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.
Company profile
address, 4 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
4 officers (4 active, 4 linked, 3 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
10 connected companies via shared directors
75
Filing history
64 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
83/100Exceptional
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
85
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.
Signals from accounts
Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declaredPositive net assets
Net assets £2,524,554
Cash YoY
+14%
Year on year
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
£853k
↑ 14% YoY
Net Worth
£2.5m
↑ 19% YoY
Current Assets
—
Current Liabilities
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown| Metric | 2025-04-06 | 2024-03-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Cash | £852.9k | £748.1k |
| Net assets | £2.52M | £2.12M |
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.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
1
filing
- • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (22 events)Click to expand
- 2025-12-23📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-12-19📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-12-19📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-06-08📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2023-06-08📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2022-06-29📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-12-09📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-04-27📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2020-12-23📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2019-12-19📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2019-06-19📄capital-cancellation-sharescapital · SH06
- 2019-06-14📄capital-return-purchase-own-sharescapital · SH03
- 2018-12-19📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2017-12-20📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2017-05-05📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2016-08-05🔒Charge registered #2Lender: Bank of Scotland PLC
- 2011-08-14➕KILSHAW OBE, David Charles appointeddirector
- 2008-03-08🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Bank of Scotland PLC
- 2006-03-06🏢Company incorporatedAs LAZY DAY FOODS LIMITED
- 2006-03-06➕BEATTIE, Sally Heather, Dr appointedsecretary
- 2006-03-06➕BEATTIE, Sally Heather, Dr appointeddirector
- 2006-03-06➕BUSTARD, Emer Ann appointeddirector
Owner dependency
75/100
High — earn-out structure requiredMaterial founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.
FACTORS
- +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 20 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 71 — succession pressure is live.
Succession & seller-readiness
90/100
Likely off-market candidateStrong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 71 years old. Natural succession window is now.
- primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 20 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
- 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
cleanNo red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)
Shareholders & ownership
2 active beneficial owners| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mrs Emer Ann Bustard Individual · Irish · DOB 09/1972 · age 54 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 06/04/2016 |
Dr Sally Heather Beattie Individual · British · DOB 09/1970 · age 56 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 06/04/2016 |
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
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🔒Tailored diligence questions
7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2006-03-06
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC10612 — SIC 10612
Registered office
1 Mossburn Avenue
Harthill
Shotts
North Lanarkshire
ML7 5PX
Scotland
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-04-06
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-06-13
Last: 2025-05-30
Officers (4 active · 0 resigned)
BEATTIE, Sally Heather, Dr→
Activesecretary · appointed 2006-03-06
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BEATTIE, Sally Heather, Dr→
Activedirector · ~56y · appointed 2006-03-06
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BUSTARD, Emer Ann→
Activedirector · ~54y · appointed 2006-03-06
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KILSHAW OBE, David Charles→
Activedirector · ~71y · appointed 2011-08-14
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Mortgages & charges
2
Total charges
2
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Lloyds Banking Group Bank of Scotland PLC | A registered charge | 1 property | 05/08/2016 | — | |
| outstanding | Lloyds Banking Group Bank of Scotland PLC | Bond & floating charge | 1 property | 08/03/2008 | — |
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Recent filings (64 total)
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-23
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-06-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-19
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-05-31
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-19
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-06-08
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-06-08
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-06-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-06-29
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-05-30
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-05-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-12-09
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-04-27
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2021-04-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-12-23