What a buyer sees
IMAGINE CRUISING LIMITED
Travel agency activities · Richmond · 06803008
218staff · FY2024
17years trading
—oldest owner on file
£16Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£133Mfor 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
Staff218
2022171 → 2182024
Cash at bank£16M
2022£8.4M → £16M2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£608,631in the middle half
£35,594£317,348£1,104,389
Debtor daysdays158in the top quarter
839185
Creditor daysdays232
1140256
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
62077
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 29 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.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 158 against 39 for the middle of 65 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
- Headcount grew from 181 to 218Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 47since 2012
- 59since 2023
- 61since 2023
- 53since 2024
- 53since 2025
- 51since 2026
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £133M | 218 | £16M |
| 2023-03-31 | £119M | 181 | £11M |
| 2022-03-31 | £37M | 171 | £8.4M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£53M£119M
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.