What a buyer sees
CAT UK VEHICLE LOGISTICS LIMITED
Maintenance and repair of motor vehicles · Bristol · 01150563
40staff · FY2025
53years trading
73oldest owner on file
£2.1Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£38Mfor 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
Staff40
202038 → 402025
Cash at bank£2.1M
2020£811k → £2.1M2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£959,075above almost all
£50,702£87,460£301,306
Debtor daysdays56in the top quarter
102670
Creditor daysdays60
102061
Stock daysdays2below almost all
52094
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
- Headcount fell from 53 to 40A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 56 against 26 for the middle of 33 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
- 53 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 959,075 against 87,460 for the middle of 45 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 2 against 20 for the middle of 143 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 73since 2025
Directors
- 60since 2020
- 54since 2022
- 49since 2024
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 2026-07-25 | £38M | 40 | £2.1M |
| 2023-12-31 | — | £33M | 53 | £396k |
| 2021-12-31 | — | £18M | 31 | £282k |
| 2020-12-31 | — | £22M | 38 | £811k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£15M£35M
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.