What a buyer sees
WATERMOOR MEAT SUPPLY LIMITED
Retail sale of meat and meat products in specialised stores · Chippenham · 00508027
126staff · FY2025
74years trading
80oldest owner on file
£165kcash 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
Staff126
202149 → 1262025
Cash at bank£165k
2021£265k → £165k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£93,775below almost all
£98,596£257,484£692,330
Debtor daysdays17in the bottom quarter
123977
Creditor daysdays25
133163
Stock daysdays13in the bottom quarter
1248117
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
- The last accounts went in 11 months after year endThe allowance is nine. A buyer reads a late filing as a question about the finance function rather than about the trading.
- 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 5
- 74 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 49 to 126Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 17 against 39 for the middle of 1,162 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 13 against 48 for the middle of 1,442 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
- 80since 2017
Directors
- since 1999
- 34since 2016
- 34since 2016
- 80
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-30 | 2026-09-10 | £12M | 126 | £165k |
| 2022-08-31 | — | not filed | 49 | £2k |
| 2021-08-31 | — | not filed | 49 | £265k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.25–0.5× sales£3.0M£5.9M
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.