What a buyer sees
CRAPPER & SONS LANDFILL LIMITED
Treatment and disposal of non-hazardous waste · Swindon · 03707005
59staff · FY2023
27years trading
—oldest owner on file
£956kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£18Mfor 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
Staff59
202145 → 592023
Cash at bank£956k
2021£104k → £956k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£298,619in the middle half
£80,809£210,683£730,663
Debtor daysdays95above almost all
174885
Creditor daysdays22
132652
Stock daysdays1below 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 4
- The newest accounts on file are 34 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Headcount fell from 70 to 59A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 95 against 48 for the middle of 53 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
- 27 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 1 against 14 for the middle of 41 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 55since 2000
- since 2001
- 58since 2013
- 57since 2018
- 67since 2019
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-10-31 | £18M | 59 | £956k |
| 2022-10-31 | £20M | 70 | £231k |
| 2021-10-31 | not filed | 45 | £104k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£7.0M£16M
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.