What a buyer sees
COOLAIR EQUIPMENT LIMITED
Plumbing, heat and air-conditioning installation · Dukinfield · 02883010
42staff · FY2025
33years trading
—oldest owner on file
£-271kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£16Mfor 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
Staff42
202159 → 422025
Cash at bank£-271k
2021£1.2M → £-271k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£386,943in the middle half
£93,327£224,106£723,233
Debtor daysdays9below almost all
1148103
Creditor daysdays48
103762
Stock daysdays1below almost all
51260
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
- Headcount fell from 52 to 42A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- 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
- 33 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 9 against 48 for the middle of 40 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 0 against 12 for the middle of 97 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 67since 1994
- 58since 2002
- 60since 2004
- 55since 2012
- 58since 2021
- 40since 2022
- 52since 2022
- 41since 2022
- 41since 2022
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 2026-09-04 | £16M | 42 | £-271k |
| 2023-12-31 | — | £22M | 52 | £2k |
| 2022-12-31 | — | £18M | 58 | £226k |
| 2021-12-31 | — | £18M | 59 | £1.2M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.7× sales£6.5M£11M
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.