What a buyer sees
HARDSCAPE PRODUCTS LIMITED
Cutting, shaping and finishing of stone · Bolton · 02986234
47staff · FY2024
32years trading
—oldest owner on file
£2.0Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£23Mfor 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
Staff47
202248 → 472024
Cash at bank£2.0M
2022£3.4M → £2.0M2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£479,553in the middle half
£75,818£268,200£906,093
Debtor daysdays89in the top quarter
225592
Creditor daysdays69
113064
Stock daysdays2below almost all
1049126
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
- The newest accounts on file are 29 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 89 against 55 for the middle of 905 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
- 32 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 40 to 47Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 2 against 48 for the middle of 890 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 64since 1994
- 48since 2013
- 51since 2015
- 43since 2019
- 55since 2026
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £23M | 47 | £2.0M |
| 2023-03-31 | £23M | 40 | £2.2M |
| 2022-03-31 | £28M | 48 | £3.4M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£9.0M£20M
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.