What a buyer sees
ROBERT POCHIN LIMITED
Wholesale of hardware, plumbing and heating equipment and supplies · Leicester · 00179511
172staff · FY2025
104years trading
—oldest owner on file
£164kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£61Mfor 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
Staff172
2023154 → 1722025
Cash at bank£164k
2023£242k → £164k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£356,701in the top quarter
£164,198£269,265£395,137
Debtor daysdays40in the middle half
245387
Creditor daysdays47
143760
Stock daysdays55in the middle half
2762132
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
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- 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
- 104 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 154 to 172Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 356,701 against 269,265 for the middle of 30 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 61since 1997
- 59since 2019
- 44since 2024
- 49since 2025
- 68
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 2026-08-04 | £61M | 172 | £164k |
| 2023-12-31 | — | £57M | 154 | £242k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£21M£34M
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.