CROSS WASTE RECYCLING LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
07400908 · ltd · incorporated 2010-10-08
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.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
- · Oldest live charge 8.0y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to May 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 38210
Sector: Water supply & waste
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 67-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 67). 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 8.0y
70/100
ready
Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.
- · Oldest live charge is 8.0 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
- · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.
Data confidence
Overall: medium (73/100)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
1 year of iXBRL accounts extracted (no YoY comparison) + narrative notes parsed
50
Lenders & charges
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
2 officers (2 active, 2 linked, 2 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
4 connected companies via shared directors
57
Filing history
50 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
1 year 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 | 2025-05-31 |
|---|---|
| Average employees | 3 |
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.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
1
filing
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand
- 2025-10-27📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2025-03-14📄accounts-amended-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AAMD
- 2024-12-06📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-07-19📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-06-12📄mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-datemortgage · MR01
- 2023-06-06🔒Charge registered #2Lender: The Trustees of the Down to Earth Demolition Limited Directors Rbs
- 2022-10-07📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-11-19📄mortgage-satisfy-charge-fullmortgage · MR04
- 2021-11-19🔓Charge satisfied #1
- 2021-11-17📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2021-11-16📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2021-11-16📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2021-11-16📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2021-09-10📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-08-19📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-06-04📄change-account-reference-date-company-previous-extendedaccounts · AA01
- 2019-11-25📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2019-11-25📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2019-10-02📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2018-05-30🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Bibby Financial Services Limited as Security Trustee
- 2010-10-08🏢Company incorporatedAs CROSS WASTE RECYCLING LIMITED
- 2010-10-08➕CROSS, Brett William appointeddirector
- 2010-10-08➕CROSS, William appointeddirector
Owner dependency
100/100
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 "CROSS" — 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.
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 67 — succession pressure is live.
- +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.
- +No director turnover: Company is 16 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.
Succession & seller-readiness
79/100
Likely off-market candidateStrong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 67. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
- 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 William Cross Individual · British · DOB 03/1959 · age 67 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 06/04/2016 |
Mr Brett William Cross Individual · British · DOB 05/1981 · age 45 | 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.
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Peers ranked by estimated value, then turnover, then opportunity score.See all →
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7 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
Incorporated2010-10-08
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC38210 — SIC 38210
Registered office
Cabourn House
Station Street
Bingham
Nottinghamshire
NG13 8AQ
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2027-02-28
Last made up to: 2025-05-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-25
Last: 2026-04-11
Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)
CROSS, Brett William→
Activedirector · ~45y · appointed 2010-10-08
View their other companies + combined net worth →
CROSS, William→
Activedirector · ~67y · appointed 2010-10-08
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Mortgages & charges
2
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | NatWest Group The Trustees of the Down to Earth Demolition Limited Directors Rbs | A registered charge | — | 06/06/2023 | — | |
| satisfied | Bibby Financial Services Bibby Financial Services Limited as Security Trustee | A registered charge | 4 properties | 30/05/2018 | 19/11/2021 |
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Recent filings (50 total)
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-05-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-10-27
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-05-07
accounts-amended-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AAMD
2025-03-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-06
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-07-19
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2023-06-12
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-05-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-10-07
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-05-12
mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2021-11-19
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2021-11-17
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2021-11-16
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2021-11-16