PAUL COOK RESTAURANTS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC426044 · ltd · incorporated 2012-06-12
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 10.7y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Sept 2024
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Licenced restaurants
Sector: Accommodation & food service
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 76-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (68/100, director aged 76). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · oldest 10.7y

85/100
ready

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

  • · Oldest live charge is 10.7 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (84/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

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
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
6 officers (2 active, 6 linked, 6 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
19 connected companies via shared directors
90
Filing history
48 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
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
75
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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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Sept 2023Sept 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-09-262023-09-26
Average employees11001100

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
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filings
Last 90 days
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filings
Last 180 days
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filings
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (31 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-09-26
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    legacy
    other · GUARANTEE2
  2. 2025-09-26
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    legacy
    other · AGREEMENT2
  3. 2025-09-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2024-10-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2024-10-07
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    legacy
    other · AGREEMENT2
  6. 2024-10-07
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    legacy
    other · GUARANTEE2
  7. 2023-06-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  8. 2023-04-20
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    termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM01
  9. 2023-03-17
    ➖
    MACDONALD, Ruaridh resigned
    director
  10. 2022-09-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  11. 2022-03-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  12. 2021-11-12
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    mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
    mortgage · MR01
  13. 2021-10-27
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  14. 2021-09-22
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    change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
    accounts · AA01
  15. 2021-05-12
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  16. 2020-09-16
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    change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
    accounts · AA01
  17. 2019-11-21
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    change-account-reference-date-company-previous-extended
    accounts · AA01
  18. 2019-06-10
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  19. 2019-03-11
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    change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
    accounts · AA01
  20. 2018-12-13
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    change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
    accounts · AA01
  21. 2016-01-18
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    COOK, Robert Barclay resigned
    director
  22. 2015-08-05
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  23. 2015-03-27
    ➕
    COOK, Robert Barclay appointed
    director
  24. 2015-03-27
    ➕
    MACDONALD, Ruaridh appointed
    director
  25. 2014-05-26
    ➕
    GILLIES, Iain appointed
    director
  26. 2014-05-02
    ➖
    COOK, Paul resigned
    director
  27. 2014-04-03
    ➖
    COOK, Paul Robert resigned
    director
  28. 2012-06-12
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As PAUL COOK RESTAURANTS LIMITED
  29. 2012-06-12
    ➕
    SMITH, Gerard Henry appointed
    director
  30. 2012-06-12
    ➕
    COOK, Paul Robert appointed
    director
  31. 2012-06-12
    ➕
    COOK, Paul appointed
    director

Owner dependency

73/100
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 76 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

79/100
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 76 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 14 years.
  • 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.)

Group structure

Grange Leisure Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Grange Leisure Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares
ultimate parent
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PAUL COOK RESTAURANTS LIMITED
This company · SC426044

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

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Grange Leisure Limited
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%75-100% shares · 75-100% voting06/04/2016

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
Incorporated2012-06-12
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC56101 — Licenced restaurants

Registered office

C/O The Grange Manor
Glensburgh Road
Grangemouth
FK3 8XJ

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-06-26
Last made up to: 2024-09-26
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-06-26
Last: 2025-06-12

Officers (2 active · 4 resigned)

GILLIES, Iain→
director · ~64y · appointed 2014-05-26
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
SMITH, Gerard Henry→
director · ~76y · appointed 2012-06-12
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
COOK, Paul Robert→
director · ~56y · appointed 2012-06-12 · resigned 2014-04-03
Resigned
COOK, Paul→
director · ~56y · appointed 2012-06-12 · resigned 2014-05-02
Resigned
COOK, Robert Barclay→
director · ~60y · appointed 2015-03-27 · resigned 2016-01-18
Resigned
MACDONALD, Ruaridh→
director · ~51y · appointed 2015-03-27 · resigned 2023-03-17
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

2
Total charges
2
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
A registered charge1 property27/10/2021—
outstanding
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
A registered charge—05/08/2015—
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Recent filings (48 total)

legacy
other · GUARANTEE2
2025-09-26
legacy
other · AGREEMENT2
2025-09-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-09-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-07-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-10-25
legacy
other · AGREEMENT2
2024-10-07
legacy
other · GUARANTEE2
2024-10-07
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-06-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-06-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2023-06-23
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2023-04-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2022-09-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-06-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2022-03-25
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2021-11-12