What a buyer sees
BENTS GARDEN CENTRE LIMITED
Other retail sale of new goods in specialised stores (not commercial art galleries and opticians) · Warrington · 02869245
388staff · FY2024
33years trading
—oldest owner on file
£5.7Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£25Mfor the year to 2024
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
Staff388
2022393 → 3882024
Cash at bank£5.7M
2022£7.2M → £5.7M2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£64,017in the middle half
£33,133£90,563£467,786
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
112895
Creditor daysdays39
102775
Stock daysdays31in the bottom quarter
2166197
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
- The newest accounts on file are 31 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- 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
- 33 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 31 against 66 for the middle of 105 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 84since 1993
- 81since 1993
- 73since 2002
- 52since 2004
- 45since 2024
- 50since 2025
- 57since 2026
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-01-31 | £25M | 388 | £5.7M |
| 2023-01-31 | £25M | 371 | £6.1M |
| 2022-01-31 | £25M | 393 | £7.2M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.25–0.5× sales£6.2M£12M
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.