What a buyer sees
NORTHERN CORRUGATED CASES LIMITED
Other manufacturing n.e.c. · Middlewich · 02157272
68staff · FY2025
39years trading
—oldest owner on file
£257kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£5.9Mfor 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
Staff68
202263 → 682025
Cash at bank£257k
2022£903k → £257k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£87,413below almost all
£87,990£159,029£330,355
Debtor daysdays92above almost all
215488
Creditor daysdays8
133355
Stock daysdays23in the bottom quarter
1445103
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
- Headcount fell from 76 to 68A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 92 against 54 for the middle of 223 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 2
- 39 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 22 against 45 for the middle of 225 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 69since 1999
- 50since 2025
- 47since 2025
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 2026-06-24 | £5.9M | 68 | £257k |
| 2024-03-31 | — | £7.6M | 76 | £1.7M |
| 2023-03-31 | — | £7.3M | 64 | £873k |
| 2022-03-31 | — | £7.8M | 63 | £903k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£2.4M£5.3M
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.