INDUSTRIAL RECLAMATION AND SALVAGE LIMITED

💤Zombieactive
04525910 · ltd · incorporated 2002-09-04
Investment thesis
Zombie company — trading but stalled; unlikely mover.
Why interesting: Quiet, steady; could be a succession or carve-out candidate with the right conversation.
Why risky: No growth signal; thin margin for error on price.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Sept 2025
Net worth
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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
Active trading company with a 62-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 62). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Broaden director team. Sole director creates succession risk and reduces buyer comfort. Appoint a second director or strong #2. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (77/100)

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
5 officers (2 active, 5 linked, 1 with DOB)
74
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
56 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
80
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
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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£0£0£0£0£0£0Sept 2024Sept 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · IFRS
Metric2025-09-302024-09-30
Average employees100100

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-11-13
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-03-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-06-14
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-07-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2023-01-03
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  6. 2023-01-03
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  7. 2023-01-03
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  8. 2022-06-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  9. 2021-06-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  10. 2020-02-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  11. 2018-11-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  12. 2018-06-18
    ➕
    WOODS, Jonathan appointed
    secretary
  13. 2018-06-18
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    WOODS, Thomas David resigned
    secretary
  14. 2018-06-18
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    appoint-person-secretary-company-with-name-date
    officers · AP03
  15. 2018-06-18
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    termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM02
  16. 2018-02-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  17. 2016-10-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  18. 2002-09-11
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    WOODS, Jonathan appointed
    director
  19. 2002-09-11
    ➕
    WOODS, Thomas David appointed
    secretary
  20. 2002-09-09
    ➖
    FORM 10 SECRETARIES FD LTD resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  21. 2002-09-09
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    FORM 10 DIRECTORS FD LTD resigned
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  22. 2002-09-04
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    Company incorporated
    As INDUSTRIAL RECLAMATION AND SALVAGE LIMITED
  23. 2002-09-04
    ➕
    FORM 10 SECRETARIES FD LTD appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  24. 2002-09-04
    ➕
    FORM 10 DIRECTORS FD LTD appointed
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

93/100
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
  • +Sole director: Only one active director — all governance concentrated on one person.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 24 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 62 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

85/100
Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS
  • secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 62. Early succession window.
  • primarySole active director: Only one director in control. No visible successor — buyers solve the succession problem.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 24 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 24 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.)

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Jonathan Woods
Individual · British · DOB 11/1964 · age 62
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control06/04/2016

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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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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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2002-09-04
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC38320 — SIC 38320

Registered office

16 Whalley Road
Heskin
Chorley
PR7 5NY
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-06-30
Last made up to: 2025-09-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-07-04
Last: 2026-06-20

Officers (2 active · 3 resigned)

WOODS, Jonathan→
secretary · appointed 2018-06-18
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
WOODS, Jonathan→
director · ~62y · appointed 2002-09-11
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
WOODS, Thomas David→
secretary · appointed 2002-09-11 · resigned 2018-06-18
Resigned
FORM 10 SECRETARIES FD LTD→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2002-09-04 · resigned 2002-09-09
Resigned
FORM 10 DIRECTORS FD LTD→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2002-09-04 · resigned 2002-09-09
Resigned

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Recent filings (56 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-07-02
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-11-13
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-06-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-03-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-07-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-06-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-07-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-06-23
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-01-03
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-01-03
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2023-01-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-06-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-06-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-07-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-06-01