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What a buyer sees

HALSE SOUTH WEST LIMITED

Wholesale of agricultural machinery, equipment and supplies · Ottery St. Mary · 10231695

42staff · FY2025
10years trading
—oldest owner on file
£4kcash at bank

Your turnover is on public record

filed
£35Mfor 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

Staff42
202141 → 422025
Cash at bank£4k
2021£10k → £4k2025

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employee£840,817in the top quarter
£840,817
£249,366£499,300£1,125,928
Debtor daysdays41in the top quarter
41
153453
Creditor daysdays99
99
1644109
Stock daysdays112in the middle half
112
5399183

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

  • Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 41 against 34 for the middle of 51 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 1

  • Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 840,817 against 499,300 for the middle of 46 comparable companies.

What the register says

Owners

Nobody recorded with significant control.

Directors

  • 58since 2016
  • 87since 2017
Accounts on public record
Year toFiledTurnoverStaffCash
2025-12-312026-07-31£35M42£4k
2022-12-31—£30M44£7k
2021-12-31—£29M41£10k

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.35–0.55× sales
£12M
£19M

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.

Prepared by Qapital from public records, against 105,750 companies that did publish a turnover. No figure here was supplied by the company and none of it is advice. What it is missing is everything that actually sets a price: profitability, contracts, customer concentration, and whoever would run it next.

Tell us the rest

Your turnover is on file, but the things that set a price are not: margin, customer concentration, who would run it next. Tell us where you are and we will read it properly.

Goes to one inbox. No list, no sequence, and we will not pass it on. We buy companies as well as advise on them, so if yours is one we would be interested in, we will tell you that before anything else happens.