What a buyer sees
GLASS RECYCLING (UK) LIMITED
Treatment and disposal of non-hazardous waste · Barnsley · 01169515
46staff · FY2025
52years trading
82oldest owner on file
£71Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£33Mfor 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
Staff46
202159 → 462025
Cash at bank£71M
2021£42M → £71M2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£712,157in the top quarter
£80,809£210,683£730,663
Debtor daysdays88above almost all
174885
Creditor daysdays16
132652
Stock daysdays0below almost all
616101
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
- Headcount fell from 55 to 46A 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 88 against 48 for the middle of 53 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 3
- 52 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 712,156 against 210,683 for the middle of 55 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 0 against 16 for the middle of 35 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 82since 2016
Directors
- 63since 1993
- since 2009
- 33since 2025
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-30 | 2026-06-30 | £33M | 46 | £71M |
| 2023-09-30 | — | £42M | 55 | £68M |
| 2021-09-30 | — | £21M | 59 | £42M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£13M£29M
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.