What a buyer sees
DISTRIBUTION SUPPLIES LIMITED
Wholesale of wood, construction materials and sanitary equipment · Huntingdon · 02911319
47staff · FY2025
32years trading
—oldest owner on file
£5.6Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£16Mfor 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
Staff47
202148 → 472025
Cash at bank£5.6M
2021£3.1M → £5.6M2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£333,549in the bottom quarter
£298,784£534,087£1,466,130
Debtor daysdays43in the middle half
265677
Creditor daysdays46
83270
Stock daysdays92in the top quarter
1243132
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
- Everyone on the board is over 60There is no one on the register a buyer can see taking the business on. That is a discount if it stays that way and a negotiating point if it changes.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 92 against 43 for the middle of 36 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 2
- 32 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- since 1994
- 65since 1994
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-30 | 2026-06-30 | £16M | 47 | £5.6M |
| 2023-09-30 | — | £18M | 50 | £5.0M |
| 2022-09-30 | — | £17M | 49 | £3.3M |
| 2021-09-30 | — | £14M | 48 | £3.1M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£5.5M£8.6M
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.