What a buyer sees
CDL PRODUCTION SERVICES LIMITED
Other information technology service activities · Stockport · 04051538
6staff · FY2025
26years trading
60oldest owner on file
£176kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£19Mfor 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
Staff6
20220 → 62025
Cash at bank£176k
2022£563k → £176k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£3,209,067above almost all
£14,220£78,467£526,038
Debtor daysdays69in the middle half
1145153
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
928172
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
516110
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 1
- 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 2
- 26 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 3,209,067 against 78,467 for the middle of 127 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 60since 2023
Directors
- 54since 2014
- 61since 2014
- 59since 2014
- 57since 2014
- since 2020
- 44since 2025
- 51since 2025
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-30 | 2026-06-27 | £19M | 6 | £176k |
| 2023-09-30 | — | £19M | 0 | £181k |
| 2022-09-30 | — | £17M | 0 | £563k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
1–3× sales£19M£58M
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.