What a buyer sees
PETER NORRIS (HAULAGE) LIMITED
Collection of non-hazardous waste · Farnham · 01047683
61staff · FY2024
54years trading
—oldest owner on file
£803kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£15Mfor 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
Staff61
202284 → 612024
Cash at bank£803k
2022£481k → £803k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£238,634in the middle half
£104,145£187,862£306,258
Debtor daysdays37in the bottom quarter
365176
Creditor daysdays40
183348
Stock daysdays2below almost all
51444
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.
- Headcount fell from 86 to 61A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- 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
- 54 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 37 against 51 for the middle of 43 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 2 against 14 for the middle of 41 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 51since 2005
- 54since 2005
- since 2023
- 90
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £15M | 61 | £803k |
| 2023-03-31 | £19M | 86 | £3.9M |
| 2022-03-31 | £19M | 84 | £481k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£5.8M£13M
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.