What a buyer sees
HAZELCROFT GARAGE LIMITED
Freight transport by road · Buxton · 01278558
90staff · FY2022
50years trading
—oldest owner on file
£4kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£7.7Mfor the year to 2022
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
Staff90
202194 → 902022
Cash at bank£4k
2021£248k → £4k2022
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£85,860below almost all
£98,332£139,970£259,966
Debtor daysdays77in the top quarter
335678
Creditor daysdays37
132644
Stock daysdays3below almost all
4623
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 49 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 77 against 56 for the middle of 272 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
- 50 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 3 against 6 for the middle of 33 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 65since 2022
- 59since 2022
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-07-31 | £7.7M | 90 | £4k |
| 2021-09-30 | £8.6M | 94 | £248k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£3.1M£7.0M
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.