DUNNS WASTE MANAGEMENT LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
07369004 · ltd · incorporated 2010-09-08
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 12.8y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒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
82/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 38320
Sector: Water supply & waste
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 61-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 61). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).
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Refinance opportunity
2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 12.8y
70/100
ready
Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.
- · Oldest live charge is 12.8 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
- · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.
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
75
Lenders & charges
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
3 officers (2 active, 3 linked, 3 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
3 connected companies via shared directors
54
Filing history
46 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
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
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 | 2025-09-30 | 2024-09-30 |
|---|---|---|
| Average employees | 2 | 200 |
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
3
filings
- • 1 accounts
- • 1 officers
- • 1 persons-with-significant-control
Last 90 days
3
filings
- • 1 accounts
- • 1 officers
- • 1 persons-with-significant-control
Last 180 days
3
filings
- • 1 accounts
- • 1 officers
- • 1 persons-with-significant-control
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
- 2026-06-23📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2026-06-18📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2026-06-18📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-control-without-name-datepersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2025-06-29📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-10-15📄mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-datemortgage · MR01
- 2024-10-02🔒Charge registered #2Lender: Standard Life Trustee Company Limited and Hannelore Dunn and Karl Stephen Andrew Dunn and David Richard Dunn as Trustees of the Dunn Brothers Pension Plan
- 2024-06-27📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-05-25📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-06-10📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-06-06📄termination-director-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM01
- 2022-05-31➖DUNN, Alan resigneddirector
- 2022-04-26📄mortgage-satisfy-charge-fullmortgage · MR04
- 2022-04-26🔓Charge satisfied #1
- 2021-06-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-06-28📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2019-06-27📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2018-06-29📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2017-09-06📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC01
- 2017-09-06📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC01
- 2013-09-18🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
- 2011-06-20➕DUNN, Karl Stephen Andrew appointeddirector
- 2010-11-18➕DUNN, David Richard appointeddirector
- 2010-09-08🏢Company incorporatedAs DUNNS WASTE MANAGEMENT LIMITED
- 2010-09-08➕DUNN, Alan appointeddirector
Owner dependency
99/100
Critical — business is the founderThe 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.
- +Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "DUNN" — strong identity link between founder and business.
- +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 16 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 61 — approaching natural succession window.
- +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.
Succession & seller-readiness
69/100
Strong succession signalMultiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.
SIGNALS
- secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 61. Early succession window.
- secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
- secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 16 years.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 16 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
2 active beneficial owners| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mr Karl Stephen Andrew Dunn Individual · British · DOB 04/1965 · age 61 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 24/04/2017 |
Mr David Richard Dunn Individual · British · DOB 05/1967 · age 59 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 24/04/2017 |
1 historic (ceased) PSC
- Mr Alan Dunnceased 24/04/2017· 75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control
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.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AJH WASTE MANAGEMENT & LOGISTICS LIMITED→ 15884994 · est 2024 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 1y | — | — |
| BEWDLEY & KIDDERMINSTER SKIP HIRE LTD→ 11400812 · est 2018 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 7y | — | — |
| BLAKEDOWN SERVICES LIMITED→ 05935223 · est 2006 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 19y | — | — |
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| DRAIN & SEWER SERVICES LIMITED→ 10731843 · est 2017 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 8y | — | — |
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| DRB RESOURCES LIMITED→ 04473332 · est 2002 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 23y | — | — |
| DRUMCARE LIMITED→ 02815419 · est 1993 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 32y | — | — |
| DYSE EV LTD→ 15073835 · est 2023 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 2y | — | — |
| EASTFIELD RECYCLING LIMITED→ 09881472 · est 2015 · no financials extracted | — | — | — | — | 10y | — | — |
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🔒Tailored diligence questions
6 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2010-09-08
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC38320 — SIC 38320
Registered office
No 4 Castle Court 2
Castlegate Way
Dudley
West Midlands
DY1 4RH
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2027-06-30
Last made up to: 2025-09-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-09-19
Last: 2025-09-05
Officers (2 active · 1 resigned)
DUNN, David Richard→
Activedirector · ~59y · appointed 2010-11-18
View their other companies + combined net worth →
DUNN, Karl Stephen Andrew→
Activedirector · ~61y · appointed 2011-06-20
View their other companies + combined net worth →
DUNN, Alan→
Resigneddirector · ~84y · appointed 2010-09-08 · resigned 2022-05-31
Click a director name to see their full track record across all companies.
Mortgages & charges
2
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Standard Life Trustee Company and Hannelore Dunn and Karl Stephen Andrew Dunn and David Richard Dunn as Trustees of the Dunn Brothers Pension Plan Standard Life Trustee Company Limited and Hannelore Dunn and Karl Stephen Andrew Dunn and David Richard Dunn as Trustees of the Dunn Brothers Pension Plan | A registered charge | 1 property | 02/10/2024 | — | |
| satisfied | Barclays Barclays Bank PLC | A registered charge | 1 property | 18/09/2013 | 26/04/2022 |
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Recent filings (46 total)
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-06-23
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-06-18
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control-without-name-date
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2026-06-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-09-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-06-29
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2024-10-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-09-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-06-27
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-09-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-05-25
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-09-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-06-10
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2022-06-06
mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2022-04-26
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-09-21