APC CLEANING SERVICES LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
04960417 · ltd · incorporated 2003-11-11
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.
🔒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
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: General cleaning of buildings
Sector: Administrative & support services
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 73-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 73). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (76/100)

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 (3 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)
78
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
64 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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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Apr 2024Apr 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-04-052024-04-05

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
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filings
Last 90 days
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Last 180 days
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filings
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-10-14
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-12-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2023-12-14
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-12-04
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  5. 2023-12-01
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  6. 2022-12-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2021-12-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2021-01-24
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2021-01-20
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  10. 2019-12-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2018-12-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2018-01-05
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2017-01-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  14. 2015-12-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  15. 2015-11-16
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    annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
    annual-return · AR01
  16. 2003-11-11
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    Company incorporated
    As APC CLEANING SERVICES LIMITED
  17. 2003-11-11
    ➕
    HOLMES, Ronald Charles appointed
    secretary
  18. 2003-11-11
    ➕
    CROSSLEY, Anthony Paul appointed
    director
  19. 2003-11-11
    ➕
    HOLMES, Ronald Charles appointed
    director
  20. 2003-11-11
    ➕
    WATERLOW SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  21. 2003-11-11
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    WATERLOW SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  22. 2003-11-11
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    WATERLOW NOMINEES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  23. 2003-11-11
    ➖
    WATERLOW NOMINEES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

83/100
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 23 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 73 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

96/100
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 73 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 23 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 23 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
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Anthony Paul Crossley
Individual · British · DOB 01/1956 · age 70
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% 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
Incorporated2003-11-11
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC81210 — General cleaning of buildings

Registered office

49 Briar Road Briar Road
Watford
WD25 0HW
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-01-05
Last made up to: 2025-04-05
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-11-25
Last: 2025-11-11

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

HOLMES, Ronald Charles→
secretary · appointed 2003-11-11
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
CROSSLEY, Anthony Paul→
director · ~70y · appointed 2003-11-11
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
HOLMES, Ronald Charles→
director · ~73y · appointed 2003-11-11
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
WATERLOW SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2003-11-11 · resigned 2003-11-11
Resigned
WATERLOW NOMINEES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2003-11-11 · resigned 2003-11-11
Resigned

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Recent filings (64 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-12-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-10-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-12-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-12-14
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-12-04
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-12-01
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2023-12-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-12-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-12-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-12-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-01-24
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-01-20
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2021-01-20