What a buyer sees
LAW DISTRIBUTION LIMITED
Freight transport by road · St. Helens · 02915724
159staff · FY2023
32years trading
44oldest owner on file
£604kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£17Mfor 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
Staff159
2021162 → 1592023
Cash at bank£604k
2021£452k → £604k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£104,900in the bottom quarter
£98,332£139,970£259,966
Debtor daysdays60in the middle half
335678
Creditor daysdays21
132644
Stock daysdays0below 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 32 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- 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
- 32 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 0 against 6 for the middle of 33 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 44since 2022
- 41since 2022
Directors
- 44since 2019
- 64since 2019
- 53since 2025
- 52since 2025
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £17M | 159 | £604k |
| 2022-12-31 | £18M | 170 | £467k |
| 2021-12-31 | £15M | 162 | £452k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£6.7M£15M
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.