What a buyer sees
TREETOP FORESTRY LIMITED
Logging · Laurencekirk · SC292083
43staff · FY2025
21years trading
72oldest owner on file
£60kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£12Mfor 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
Staff43
202155 → 432025
Cash at bank£60k
2021£0k → £60k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£285,056in the middle half
£55,828£315,689£848,405
Debtor daysdays47in the middle half
193581
Creditor daysdays17
143273
Stock daysdays27in the bottom quarter
1253136
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
- Everyone on the board is over 60There is no one on the register a buyer can see taking the business on. That is a discount if it stays that way and a negotiating point if it changes.
- Headcount fell from 55 to 43A 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 2
- 21 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.
What the register says
Owners
- 72since 2016
- 69since 2016
- 67since 2016
Directors
- since 2005
- 67since 2005
- 69since 2005
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-30 | 2026-08-29 | £12M | 43 | £60k |
| 2023-11-30 | — | not filed | 55 | £205k |
| 2022-11-30 | — | £15M | 58 | £0k |
| 2021-11-30 | — | £12M | 55 | £0k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£4.9M£11M
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.