CRYOTECH LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
03487867 · ltd · incorporated 1998-01-02
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
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
- · Oldest live charge 26.4y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Apr 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
83/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 99999
Sector: Extraterritorial bodies
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 75-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 83/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 75). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 3 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
3 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 26.4y
50/100
clean up first
Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.
- · Oldest live charge is 26.4 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
- · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.
Data confidence
Overall: medium (79/100)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
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)
90
Directors & officers
6 officers (4 active, 6 linked, 3 with DOB)
80
Ownership & PSC
3 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
3 connected companies via shared directors
54
Filing history
82 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.
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102| Metric | 2025-04-30 | 2024-04-30 |
|---|---|---|
| Average employees | 0 | — |
Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.
🔒Filing-note intelligence
1 signal 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
2
filings
- • 1 accounts
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (28 events)Click to expand
- 2026-01-29📄accounts-with-accounts-type-dormantaccounts · AA
- 2025-01-31📄accounts-with-accounts-type-dormantaccounts · AA
- 2024-01-29📄accounts-with-accounts-type-dormantaccounts · AA
- 2024-01-03📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2024-01-03📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2022-12-20📄accounts-with-accounts-type-dormantaccounts · AA
- 2022-01-13📄accounts-with-accounts-type-dormantaccounts · AA
- 2021-01-25📄accounts-with-accounts-type-dormantaccounts · AA
- 2020-01-16📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2020-01-15📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2020-01-15📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2020-01-15📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2020-01-15📄change-person-secretary-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH03
- 2019-11-14📄accounts-with-accounts-type-dormantaccounts · AA
- 2019-02-07📄accounts-with-accounts-type-dormantaccounts · AA
- 2018-02-07📄accounts-with-accounts-type-dormantaccounts · AA
- 2001-11-19🔒Charge registered #3Lender: Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC
- 2001-11-19🔒Charge registered #2Lender: Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC
- 2000-02-02🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Hsbc Bank PLC
- 1999-11-15➕SKIDMORE, Jean Mary appointeddirector
- 1998-01-06➕CALDER, Elizabeth appointedsecretary
- 1998-01-06➕BROOKS, Margaret Dawn appointeddirector
- 1998-01-06➕CALDER, Elizabeth appointeddirector
- 1998-01-06➖SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED resignedcorporate-nominee-secretary
- 1998-01-06➖INSTANT COMPANIES LIMITED resignedcorporate-nominee-director
- 1998-01-02🏢Company incorporatedAs CRYOTECH LIMITED
- 1998-01-02➕SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED appointedcorporate-nominee-secretary
- 1998-01-02➕INSTANT COMPANIES LIMITED appointedcorporate-nominee-director
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 29 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 75 — 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 75 years old. Natural succession window is now.
- primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 29 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 29 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
3 active beneficial owners| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
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Miss Elizabeth Calder Individual · British · DOB 03/1969 · age 57 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 06/04/2016 |
Margaret Dawn Brooks Individual · British · DOB 05/1966 · age 60 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 06/04/2016 |
Mr David Michael Calder Individual · British · DOB 03/1942 · age 84 | 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.
🔒Co-director network graph
Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
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Peers ranked by estimated value, then turnover, then opportunity score.See all →
🔒Tailored diligence questions
8 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →🔒Advanced scoring suite
Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1998-01-02
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC99999 — SIC 99999
Registered office
Ty Coch Way
Cwmbran
Gwent
NP44 7HB
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2027-01-31
Last made up to: 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-01-16
Last: 2026-01-02
Officers (4 active · 2 resigned)
Active
BROOKS, Margaret Dawn→
Activedirector · ~60y · appointed 1998-01-06
View their other companies + combined net worth →
CALDER, Elizabeth→
Activedirector · ~57y · appointed 1998-01-06
View their other companies + combined net worth →
SKIDMORE, Jean Mary→
Activedirector · ~75y · appointed 1999-11-15
View their other companies + combined net worth →
SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED→
Resignedcorporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1998-01-02 · resigned 1998-01-06
INSTANT COMPANIES LIMITED→
Resignedcorporate-nominee-director · appointed 1998-01-02 · resigned 1998-01-06
Click a director name to see their full track record across all companies.
Mortgages & charges
3
Total charges
3
Outstanding
2
Active lenders
Status:Lender:3 of 3 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Lloyds Banking Group Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC | An omnibus letter of set-off | 1 property | 19/11/2001 | — | |
| outstanding | Lloyds Banking Group Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC | Debenture deed | 1 property | 19/11/2001 | — | |
| outstanding | HSBC Hsbc Bank PLC | Debenture | 1 property | 02/02/2000 | — |
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Recent filings (82 total)
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2026-01-29
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-01-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2025-01-31
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-01-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2024-01-29
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-01-16
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-01-03
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2024-01-03
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-01-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2022-12-20
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-01-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2022-01-13
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-02-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2021-01-25
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2020-01-16