What a buyer sees
CLDN PORTS KILLINGHOLME LIMITED
Service activities incidental to water transportation · London · 00278815
310staff · FY2025
93years trading
—oldest owner on file
£297kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£47Mfor 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
Staff310
2021244 → 3102025
Cash at bank£297k
2021£61k → £297k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£151,969in the top quarter
£31,820£93,809£191,788
Debtor daysdays4below almost all
235477
Creditor daysdays20
102955
Stock daysdays5in the bottom quarter
41165
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 4
- 93 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 151,969 against 93,809 for the middle of 68 comparable companies.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 4 against 54 for the middle of 66 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 5 against 11 for the middle of 206 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 50since 2006
- 61since 2019
- 49since 2019
- 65since 2020
- 43since 2020
- 55since 2020
- 64since 2025
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 2026-06-24 | £47M | 310 | £297k |
| 2023-12-31 | — | £50M | 304 | £18k |
| 2022-12-31 | — | £46M | 267 | £389k |
| 2021-12-31 | — | £45M | 244 | £61k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£19M£42M
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.