What a buyer sees
COTTESWOLD DAIRY LIMITED
Liquid milk and cream production · Tewkesbury · 00447327
490staff · FY2025
78years trading
—oldest owner on file
£1.9Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£102Mfor 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
Staff490
2023447 → 4902025
Cash at bank£1.9M
2023£4.0M → £1.9M2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£208,767in the middle half
£79,504£145,354£269,861
Debtor daysdays39in the middle half
234984
Creditor daysdays27
133264
Stock daysdays5below almost all
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
- 78 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 4 against 40 for the middle of 212 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 55since 1995
- 80since 2008
- 51since 2015
- since 2017
- 81
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-27 | 2026-08-26 | £102M | 490 | £1.9M |
| 2023-12-30 | — | £85M | 447 | £4.0M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£41M£92M
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.