Mel Waste Insights Limited
Registered name: MEL WASTE INSIGHTS LIMITED
Part of Alfred H. Knight Holdings Limited groupMel Waste Insights Limited made £770k revenue and a £3.6k loss in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Mel Waste Insights Limited’s revenue fell 17% to £770k in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with a loss of £3.6k and 15 employees. The company is classified under “other business support service activities” and is based in Prescot; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Prescot, North West
- Age
- 8 yrs · since 2018
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Part of a group. The filing indicates this company sits within a group structure, so its results may depend on intra-group trading and it may be hard to replicate independently.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £853k | £925k | £770k |
| Cost of sales | −£487k | −£464k | −£514k |
| Gross profit | £365k | £461k | £257k |
| Operating profit | £93.2k | £40.6k | −£10.2k |
| Profit after tax | £93.2k | £40.7k | −£3.6k |
| Profit (best available) | £93.2k | £40.7k | −£3.6k |
| Employees (average) | 17 | 15 | 15 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 10.9% | 4.4% | −0.5% |
| Gross margin | 42.9% | 49.8% | 33.3% |
| Revenue per employee | £50.2k | £61.7k | £51.4k |
| Profit per employee | £5.5k | £2.7k | −£241 |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲8.5% | ▼16.7% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼56.4% | ▼108.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼11.8% | 0% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −0.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 33.3%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £51.4k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£241
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- Money owed by customers. Low = customers pay quickly.
Balance-sheet signals
Year-on-year changes in filed balance-sheet items. They can hint at momentum (or investment) but are not revenue or profit and must not be read as such.
- Net assets
- —
- Now —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- 0%
- Now 15
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Alfred H. Knight Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Alfred H Knight UK Holdings Limited75–100%
- Mel Waste Insights Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (9)
- Alfred H Knight Eastern Europe LimitedRev. £5m · Profit −£116k
- Alfred H Knight Mineral Processing UK LimitedRev. £1.3m · Profit −£186k
- A.h. Knight Asia Ltd.Rev. £381k · Profit −£114k
- Alfred H Knight Consultancy LimitedRev. £374k · Profit −£93k
- Alfred H Knight Solid Fuels LimitedRev. £8.9k · Profit £8.8k
- A.h. Knight Asia Laboratory Ltd.Figures not disclosed
- Alfred H Knight Energy Services LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Alfred H. Knight International LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Onlabs LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit −£3.6k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 12 Oct 2026
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