What a buyer sees
B.G. AUTOMOTIVE LIMITED
Wholesale trade of motor vehicle parts and accessories · Swindon · 03635800
190staff · FY2025
28years trading
—oldest owner on file
£10Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£70Mfor 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
Staff190
2021105 → 1902025
Cash at bank£10M
2021£2.8M → £10M2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£368,560in the top quarter
£103,811£183,100£384,330
Debtor daysdays84in the top quarter
195186
Creditor daysdays25
183763
Stock daysdays64in the middle half
4175148
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
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 84 against 51 for the middle of 45 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 3
- 28 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 139 to 190Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 368,560 against 183,100 for the middle of 45 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 66since 2001
- 64since 2004
- 65since 2004
- 47since 2011
- since 2019
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-30 | 2026-08-22 | £70M | 190 | £10M |
| 2023-11-30 | — | £50M | 139 | £3.1M |
| 2022-11-30 | — | £37M | 127 | £3.2M |
| 2021-11-30 | — | £31M | 105 | £2.8M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£28M£63M
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.