What a buyer sees
LUNAR FREEZING & COLD STORAGE COMPANY LIMITED
Other service activities n.e.c. · Peterhead · SC126272
289staff · FY2025
36years trading
—oldest owner on file
£3.3Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£99Mfor 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
Staff289
2021245 → 2892025
Cash at bank£3.3M
2021£2.5M → £3.3M2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£341,732in the top quarter
£13,804£82,098£427,160
Debtor daysdays52in the middle half
1138115
Creditor daysdays10
103192
Stock daysdays129above almost all
719116
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
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 129 against 19 for the middle of 312 comparable companies. That gap is working capital a buyer has to fund on day one, and it comes off the price.
- 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
- 36 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 253 to 289Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 341,732 against 82,098 for the middle of 656 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 75since 1990
- 59since 2000
- 57since 2000
- 59since 2005
- 54since 2013
- 38since 2017
- 36since 2020
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 2026-07-25 | £99M | 289 | £3.3M |
| 2023-12-31 | — | £83M | 253 | £2.9M |
| 2022-12-31 | — | £78M | 251 | £2.9M |
| 2021-12-31 | — | £72M | 245 | £2.5M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£40M£89M
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.