What a buyer sees
U.K. PACKAGING SUPPLIES LIMITED
Non-specialised wholesale trade · London · 01854737
150staff · FY2025
42years trading
65oldest owner on file
£3.3Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£52Mfor 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
Staff150
2021141 → 1502025
Cash at bank£3.3M
2021£819k → £3.3M2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£343,673in the middle half
£121,758£262,690£455,471
Debtor daysdays62in the middle half
195078
Creditor daysdays55
113257
Stock daysdays16below almost all
2052120
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 2
- 42 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 16 against 52 for the middle of 124 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 65since 2016
Directors
- 56since 1992
- 51since 2020
- 65
- 64
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-31 | 2026-07-15 | £52M | 150 | £3.3M |
| 2023-10-31 | — | £48M | 143 | £7.0M |
| 2022-10-31 | — | £53M | 146 | £3.2M |
| 2021-10-31 | — | £49M | 141 | £819k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£18M£28M
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.