What a buyer sees
CAPITAL REFRIGERATION SERVICES LIMITED
Plumbing, heat and air-conditioning installation · Hoddesdon · 00918599
5staff · FY2025
59years trading
70oldest owner on file
£85kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£1.1Mfor 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
Cash at bank£85k
2021£148k → £85k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£229,160in the top quarter
£23,307£71,375£356,358
Debtor daysdays45in the middle half
1136109
Creditor daysdays52
102476
Stock daysdays98in the top quarter
615108
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.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 98 against 15 for the middle of 43 comparable companies. That gap is working capital a buyer has to fund on day one, and it comes off the price.
- 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 3
- 59 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 229,160 against 71,375 for the middle of 93 comparable companies.
- A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.
What the register says
Owners
- 70since 2017
- 64since 2016
Directors
- 64since 1997
- 70
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-31 | 2026-07-23 | £1.1M | 5 | £85k |
| 2023-10-31 | — | £888k | — | £73k |
| 2022-10-31 | — | £1.1M | — | £94k |
| 2021-10-31 | — | not filed | — | £148k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.7× sales£460k£800k
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.