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What a buyer sees

MARCHES MACHINERY LTD

Wholesale of agricultural machinery, equipment and supplies · Bishops Castle · 10996976

5staff · FY2025
9years trading
55oldest owner on file
—cash at bank

Nobody can see what you turn over

11.3× spread
£744k
£8.4M

You file abbreviated accounts, as almost every company your size does, so the profit and loss account is not on public record. That band is what your balance sheet implies to anyone who looks: 1 figure against 46 companies in the same trade. An opening offer is built on the bottom of it.

What your filings show moving

Staff5
20213 → 52025

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employeenot on your filings
£249,366£499,300£1,125,928
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
153453
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
1644109
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
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 3

  • Your turnover is not on fileYou file abbreviated accounts, as most companies your size do, so a buyer cannot see what the business turns over and has to estimate it. Working only from what you filed, the range lands between £744k and £8.4M. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
  • One director on the registerA buyer's first question about a company run by one person is what happens to it if that person stops. It is usually the first thing priced.
  • 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 3 to 5Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.

What the register says

Owners

  • 55since 2018
  • 55since 2017

Directors

  • 55since 2017
Accounts on public record
Year toFiledTurnoverStaffCash
2025-10-312026-07-10not filed5—
2023-10-31—not filed3—
2022-10-31—not filed2—
2021-10-31—not filed3—

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.

Close the gap

The range above exists because your turnover is not on public record. Tell us what it actually is and we will place you exactly against your trade, and send it back.

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.