What a buyer sees
CHIPPENHAM MOTOR COMPANY LIMITED
Sale, maintenance and repair of motorcycles and related parts and accessories · Chippenham · 01962593
54staff · FY2025
41years trading
—oldest owner on file
£114kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£32Mfor the year to 2025
Unusual at this size, and it works in your favour: a buyer is reading your number rather than guessing at one.
What your filings show moving
Staff54
202261 → 542025
Cash at bank£114k
2022£1.4M → £114k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£589,520in the top quarter
£98,596£257,484£692,330
Debtor daysdays1below almost all
123977
Creditor daysdays13
133163
Stock daysdays39in the middle half
1248117
Each spread is companies in the same trade and size that did publish a turnover. Creditor days are shown but not marked: neither end of that one is plainly good.
What a buyer would ask 2
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- No website on file against the companyThe first thing anyone does with a company number is look for the business behind it. Finding nothing is its own answer.
What a buyer would like 3
- 41 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 589,520 against 257,484 for the middle of 1,551 comparable companies.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 1 against 39 for the middle of 1,162 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 59since 2014
- 58since 2019
- 53since 2026
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 2026-08-06 | £32M | 54 | £114k |
| 2023-12-31 | — | £28M | 58 | £451k |
| 2022-12-31 | — | £34M | 61 | £1.4M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£13M£29M
The turnover range is fitted on UK companies that did file one. The multiple is a published sector average from Dutch mid-market deals, not from your own numbers and not from your own market. Treat this as the opening bracket of a conversation, not a valuation.