ESQUIRES COFFEE (UK) LIMITED
Company number SC192439 · Monitor this company
This company is in liquidation.
Executive summary
Esquires Coffee (UK) Limited is a critically insolvent franchise management entity operating in the competitive UK branded coffee market, with net liabilities of £8.17M and shareholders' funds of -£9.07M as at March 2025. The company's survival depends entirely on financial support from its New Zealand parent, Cooks Coffee Company Limited, while its "in liquidation" status signals that a formal insolvency process may be underway. With cash reserves depleted to £121k, £10.4M in operating lease commitments, and a sustained multi-year trajectory of balance sheet deterioration, this entity exhibits all the characteristics of a failed franchise operation that has been structurally disadvantaged within its international group — bearing disproportionate liabilities while lacking the scale or asset base to trade out of distress.
Shareholders' funds
-£9,067,296
Balance sheet as at 2025-03-31
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1999-01-07
- Employees
- 7 (2025 accounts · was 6 in 2024)
- Registered office
- 3f1 Third Floor, 3 Hill Street, New Town, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH2 3JP
- Postcode
- EH2 3JP
- Capital
- 892,642 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
- Charges
- 2 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-03-31
- Next due by
- 2026-12-31
- Financial year end
- 31 March
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-03-31
- Next due by
- 2027-04-14
Nature of business (SIC)
- 70100 Activities of head offices
Officers 2 current · 10 resigned
Group structure 2 subsidiaries
Controlled by Cooks Global Foods Limited (2089337/NZBN:9429032929652) — since 2016-04-06
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TRIPLE TWO COFFEE HOLDINGS LIMITED Dissolved
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Licensed visa sponsor
Licensed by the Home Office to sponsor worker visas: Skilled Worker (Worker (A rating)).
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Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZC067613 (Tier 1), registered since 2025.
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Contact details
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| MOCHI LTD. | 2008-03-08 |
Previous registered addresses 5
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| C/O ALEXANDER SLOAN 1 ATHOLL PLACE, EDINBURGH, EH3 8HP | 2018-10-09 |
| DALGETY HOUSE, VIEWFIELD TERRACE, DUNFERMLINE, FIFE, KY12 7HY | 2014-11-20 |
| PO BOX 26119, DEWAR HOUSE, ENTERPRISE WAY, DUNFERMLINE, FIFE KY11 8YT | 2005-05-19 |
| PO BOX 26119, 27 CANMORE STREET, DUNFERMLINE FIFE, KY12 7WH | 2004-05-04 |
| UNIT 6 DUNFERMLINE BUSINESS, CENTRE, IZATT AVENUE, DUNFERMLINE, FIFE KY11 3BZ | 1999-05-20 |
Among its peers
Among the biggest employers
of 74 similar companies in EH, with 7 staff. Among the oldest 25% of its local peers.
Competitors Edinburgh
This company ranks 160 among activities of head offices in Edinburgh.
The class of 1999
43%
of the 1,021 companies in this sector incorporated in 1999 are still active today; 56% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 23 titles
- Leasehold
- 23
- Most recent registration
- 2025-09-02
- Where
- Windsor And Maidenhead (3), Greater London (3), West Sussex (2)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WSX455330 | West Sussex | Leasehold | 2025-09-02 | — |
| BD361165 | Central Bedfordshire | Leasehold | 2025-02-14 | — |
| BK537917 | Windsor And Maidenhead | Leasehold | 2025-01-08 | — |
| DN773716 | Devon | Leasehold | 2024-10-31 | — |
| NN403328 | North Northamptonshire | Leasehold | 2024-10-28 | — |
| AGL630914 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2024-09-26 | — |
| BM474571 | Buckinghamshire | Leasehold | 2024-06-06 | — |
| BK534339 | West Berkshire | Leasehold | 2024-05-20 | — |
| CYM884012 | Newport | Leasehold | 2024-02-14 | — |
| AGL615096 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2024-02-06 | — |
| WSX445342 | West Sussex | Leasehold | 2024-02-02 | — |
| AGL612903 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2024-01-05 | — |
| ON384699 | Oxfordshire | Leasehold | 2023-11-20 | — |
| SY898506 | Surrey | Leasehold | 2023-10-27 | — |
| PM39638 | Portsmouth | Leasehold | 2023-10-04 | — |
| HD620911 | Hertfordshire | Leasehold | 2023-09-06 | — |
| AA61625 | Essex | Leasehold | 2023-08-24 | — |
| BD350778 | Central Bedfordshire | Leasehold | 2023-01-05 | — |
| NN391374 | North Northamptonshire | Leasehold | 2022-12-21 | — |
| CB470391 | Cambridgeshire | Leasehold | 2022-05-27 | — |
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