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What a buyer sees

CHARLES RIVER U.K. LIMITED

Research and experimental development on biotechnology · Kent · 00950184

129staff · FY2025
57years trading
—oldest owner on file
—cash at bank

Your turnover is on public record

filed
£22Mfor 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.

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employee£171,884in the middle half
£171,884
£28,358£136,156£699,758
Debtor daysdays35in the middle half
35
1457178
Creditor daysdays14
14
1126130
Stock daysdays37in the middle half
37
730102

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 1

  • 57 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.

What the register says

Owners

Nobody recorded with significant control.

Directors

  • 59since 2015
  • 43since 2024
  • 44since 2024
Accounts on public record
Year toFiledTurnoverStaffCash
2025-12-272026-07-01£22M129—

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.4–0.9× sales
£8.9M
£20M

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.

Prepared by Qapital from public records, against 105,750 companies that did publish a turnover. No figure here was supplied by the company and none of it is advice. What it is missing is everything that actually sets a price: profitability, contracts, customer concentration, and whoever would run it next.

Tell us the rest

Your turnover is on file, but the things that set a price are not: margin, customer concentration, who would run it next. Tell us where you are and we will read it properly.

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