What a buyer sees
COUNTRYSTYLE RECYCLING LIMITED
Treatment and disposal of non-hazardous waste · Sittingbourne · 05103813
493staff · FY2023
22years trading
—oldest owner on file
£89kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£84Mfor the year to 2023
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
Staff493
2021269 → 4932023
Cash at bank£89k
2021£2.8M → £89k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£170,115in the middle half
£80,809£210,683£730,663
Debtor daysdays56in the middle half
174885
Creditor daysdays36
132652
Stock daysdays2below almost all
61679
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 40 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 3
- 22 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 410 to 493Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 2 against 16 for the middle of 116 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
No current directors loaded.
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-04-30 | £84M | 493 | £89k |
| 2022-04-30 | £70M | 410 | £2.3M |
| 2021-04-30 | £65M | 269 | £2.8M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£34M£75M
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.