What a buyer sees
COOLING CASTLE BARN LIMITED
Event catering activities · Rochester · 03541153
60staff · FY2025
28years trading
—oldest owner on file
£1.3Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£3.1Mfor 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
Staff60
202184 → 602025
Cash at bank£1.3M
2021£2.5M → £1.3M2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£51,663in the middle half
£9,509£32,998£115,093
Debtor daysdays1below almost all
1138126
Creditor daysdays6
821120
Stock daysdays2below almost all
410183
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
- Headcount fell from 82 to 60A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- 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
- 28 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 1 against 38 for the middle of 48 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 2 against 10 for the middle of 31 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 44since 2007
- 46since 2023
- 48since 2023
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-30 | 2026-07-07 | £3.1M | 60 | £1.3M |
| 2023-10-30 | — | £3.5M | 82 | £2.0M |
| 2022-10-30 | — | £4.1M | 90 | £1.6M |
| 2021-10-30 | — | £1.6M | 84 | £2.5M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£1.2M£2.8M
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.