What a buyer sees
COVENTRY CHEMICALS LIMITED
Manufacture of soap and detergents · Coventry · 01205963
253staff · FY2025
51years trading
—oldest owner on file
£101kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£54Mfor 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
Staff253
2021195 → 2532025
Cash at bank£101k
2021£165k → £101k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£214,546in the top quarter
£79,504£145,354£269,861
Debtor daysdays67in the middle half
234984
Creditor daysdays75
133264
Stock daysdays27in 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 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 3
- 51 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 221 to 253Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 214,546 against 145,354 for the middle of 196 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 65since 2001
- 49since 2017
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-30 | 2026-08-21 | £54M | 253 | £101k |
| 2023-11-30 | — | £52M | 221 | £133k |
| 2022-11-30 | — | £45M | 195 | £94k |
| 2021-11-30 | — | £35M | 195 | £165k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£22M£49M
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.