What a buyer sees
M & L RICHARDSON & SONS LIMITED
Retail sale of automotive fuel in specialised stores · Brampton · 04681129
113staff · FY2024
23years trading
57oldest owner on file
£3.8Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£45Mfor 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
Staff113
202186 → 1132024
Cash at bank£3.8M
2021£1.2M → £3.8M2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£394,088in the middle half
£93,012£394,088£1,366,320
Debtor daysdays3below almost all
123977
Creditor daysdays13
122037
Stock daysdays7in the middle half
5818
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 28 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
- 23 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 3 against 39 for the middle of 1,162 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 49since 2016
- 55since 2016
- 52since 2016
- 57since 2016
Directors
- 49since 2003
- 52since 2003
- 57since 2003
- 55since 2003
- 42since 2025
- 55since 2025
- 54since 2025
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-30 | £45M | 113 | £3.8M |
| 2023-04-30 | £42M | 110 | £1.9M |
| 2022-04-30 | £34M | 107 | £1.5M |
| 2021-04-30 | £23M | 86 | £1.2M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.25–0.5× sales£11M£22M
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.