What a buyer sees
WINDERMERE LAKE CRUISES LIMITED
Inland passenger water transport · Bowness On Windermere · 00929280
135staff · FY2023
58years trading
—oldest owner on file
£3.9Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£11Mfor the year to 2023
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
Staff135
2022115 → 1352023
Cash at bank£3.9M
2022£7.8M → £3.9M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£84,804in the bottom quarter
£79,910£143,513£387,774
Debtor daysdays2below almost all
235378
Creditor daysdays4
122648
Stock daysdays2below almost all
41036
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
- The newest accounts on file are 43 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- 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 4
- 58 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 115 to 135Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 2 against 53 for the middle of 459 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 2 against 10 for the middle of 80 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 83since 1996
- 62since 2004
- 70since 2013
- 46since 2013
- 45since 2017
- 74since 2017
- 59since 2025
- 85
- 79
- 81
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-01-31 | £11M | 135 | £3.9M |
| 2022-01-31 | £9.5M | 115 | £7.8M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£4.6M£10M
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.