What a buyer sees
BROXBURN BOTTLERS LIMITED
Distilling, rectifying and blending of spirits · Broxburn · SC088127
262staff · FY2025
42years trading
—oldest owner on file
£59kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£35Mfor 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
Staff262
2023318 → 2622025
Cash at bank£59k
2023£282k → £59k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£135,027in the middle half
£79,504£145,354£269,861
Debtor daysdays14below almost all
234984
Creditor daysdays9
133264
Stock daysdays0below almost all
940100
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 3
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- Headcount fell from 318 to 262A 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
- 42 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 14 against 49 for the middle of 206 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 0 against 40 for the middle of 212 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 65since 2018
- 53since 2020
- 51since 2020
- 60since 2020
- 75
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 2026-08-15 | £35M | 262 | £59k |
| 2023-12-31 | — | not filed | 318 | £282k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£14M£32M
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.