CARGO RECOVERY CONSULTANTS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

01793891 · ltd · incorporated 1984-02-22

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 Jun 2025

Net worth

£3.88M

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 38320

Sector: Water supply & waste

Investor take

Pursue

Asset-holding vehicle with a 68-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 68). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: high (81/100)

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

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

8 officers (3 active, 8 linked, 4 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

10 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

113 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

80/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

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.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared

Positive net assets

Net assets £3,877,081

Net assets shrinking

Down £366,900 YoY

Cash YoY

-21%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£3.3m

↓ 21% YoY

Net Worth

£3.9m

↓ 8.6% YoY

Current Assets

£4.8m

↑ 4.5% YoY

Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2025-06-30	2024-06-30
Total assets	£3.88M	£4.24M
Current assets	£4.79M	£4.58M
Cash	£3.32M	£4.21M
Debtors	£1.47M	£367.4k
Net assets	£3.88M	£4.24M

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

2 signals 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 accounts
• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (26 events)Click to expand

2026-03-27
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accounts · AA
2025-03-31
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accounts · AA
2024-03-25
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accounts · AA
2023-03-29
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accounts · AA
2022-03-29
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accounts · AA
2021-03-15
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accounts · AA
2020-03-03
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accounts · AA
2019-03-25
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accounts · AA
2019-02-28
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address · AD01
2018-04-05
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accounts · AA
2017-06-29
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address · AD01
2017-05-09
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address · AD01
2017-04-10
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accounts · AA
2016-07-13
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officers · AP01
2016-07-01
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ARROWSMITH, Marie-Claire appointed
director
2013-07-09
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ARROWSMITH, Marie-Claire appointed
secretary
2013-07-09
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ARROWSMITH, Malcolm resigned
secretary
2013-06-28
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ARROWSMITH, Malcolm appointed
secretary
2013-06-28
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BLOOR, Ian resigned
secretary
2013-06-28
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BLOOR, Ian resigned
director
1996-08-28
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ARROWSMITH, Malcolm Stewart appointed
director
1996-08-28
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BLOOR, Ian appointed
secretary
1996-08-28
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NAEF, Christian Jean-Claude resigned
secretary
1996-08-28
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BLOOR, Ian appointed
director
1996-08-28
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NAEF, Theodore resigned
director
1984-02-22
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Company incorporated
As CARGO RECOVERY CONSULTANTS LIMITED

Owner dependency

91/100

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

+Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 30 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 68 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

86/100

Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 68. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 30 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 42 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

clean

No red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)

Group structure

Sea Trout Holdings Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Sea Trout Holdings Limited

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares

ultimate parent

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CARGO RECOVERY CONSULTANTS LIMITED

This company · 01793891

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%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Sea Trout Holdings Limited Corporate entity	75–100%	75–100%	75-100% shares · 75-100% 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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Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated1984-02-22

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC38320 — SIC 38320

Registered office

Harrow House, 23 West Street,

23 West Street

Haslemere

Surrey

GU27 2AB

England

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-03-31

Last made up to: 2025-06-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-01-30

Last: 2026-01-16

Officers (3 active · 5 resigned)

ARROWSMITH, Marie-Claire→

secretary · appointed 2013-07-09

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Active

ARROWSMITH, Malcolm Stewart→

director · ~68y · appointed 1996-08-28

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Active

ARROWSMITH, Marie-Claire→

director · ~63y · appointed 2016-07-01

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Active

ARROWSMITH, Malcolm→

secretary · appointed 2013-06-28 · resigned 2013-07-09

Resigned

BLOOR, Ian→

secretary · appointed 1996-08-28 · resigned 2013-06-28

Resigned

NAEF, Christian Jean-Claude→

secretary · resigned 1996-08-28

Resigned

BLOOR, Ian→

director · ~80y · appointed 1996-08-28 · resigned 2013-06-28

Resigned

NAEF, Theodore→

director · ~99y · resigned 1996-08-28

Resigned

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