What a buyer sees
COPERION UK LIMITED
Manufacture of machinery for food, beverage and tobacco processing · Peterborough · 05708493
297staff · FY2025
20years trading
—oldest owner on file
£22Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£40Mfor 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
Staff297
2023327 → 2972025
Cash at bank£22M
2023£3.1M → £22M2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£136,230in the middle half
£79,504£145,354£269,861
Debtor daysdays36in the bottom quarter
234984
Creditor daysdays41
133264
Stock daysdays48in the middle half
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 2
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- 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
- 20 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 36 against 49 for the middle of 206 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 63since 2022
- 53since 2025
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-30 | 2026-07-01 | £40M | 297 | £22M |
| 2023-09-30 | — | £28M | 327 | £3.1M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£16M£36M
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.