What a buyer sees
BEE LINE TRANSPORT & DISTRIBUTION LIMITED
Operation of warehousing and storage facilities for land transport activities · Wilstead · 10703258
9staff · FY2024
9years trading
—oldest owner on file
£238kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£5.0Mfor 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
Staff9
202210 → 92024
Cash at bank£238k
2022£74k → £238k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£559,189in the top quarter
£65,733£158,517£806,409
Debtor daysdays75in the top quarter
164785
Creditor daysdays57
112969
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
516138
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.
- Headcount fell from 11 to 9A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 74 against 47 for the middle of 75 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 559,189 against 158,517 for the middle of 80 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 52since 2018
- 69since 2019
- 67since 2019
- 51since 2019
- 60since 2025
- 38since 2026
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £5.0M | 9 | £238k |
| 2023-03-31 | £4.5M | 11 | £169k |
| 2022-03-31 | £5.3M | 10 | £74k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£2.0M£4.5M
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.