What a buyer sees
KINCH FUEL OILS LIMITED
Wholesale of other fuels and related products · Minety · 01492318
17staff · FY2025
46years trading
—oldest owner on file
£3.4Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£15Mfor 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
Staff17
202117 → 172025
Cash at bank£3.4M
2021£12M → £3.4M2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£880,353in the top quarter
£87,459£464,006£1,513,474
Debtor daysdays12below almost all
154790
Creditor daysdays19
102974
Stock daysdays12in the bottom quarter
1150141
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
- The last accounts went in 12 months after year endThe allowance is nine. A buyer reads a late filing as a question about the finance function rather than about the trading.
- 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 5
- 46 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 15 to 17Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 880,353 against 464,006 for the middle of 1,880 comparable companies.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 12 against 47 for the middle of 1,452 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 12 against 50 for the middle of 1,657 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- since 2024
- 50since 2024
- 72
- 75
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-31 | 2026-07-31 | £15M | 17 | £3.4M |
| 2023-07-31 | — | £18M | 15 | £15M |
| 2022-07-31 | — | £18M | 16 | £13M |
| 2021-07-31 | — | £11M | 17 | £12M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£5.2M£8.2M
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.