What a buyer sees
G. WEBB HAULAGE LIMITED
Agents involved in the sale of timber and building materials · Cambridge · 00789342
92staff · FY2023
62years trading
—oldest owner on file
£3.4Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£22Mfor the year to 2023
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
Staff92
202195 → 922023
Cash at bank£3.4M
2021£4.0M → £3.4M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£238,397in the middle half
£184,522£241,086£446,919
Debtor daysdays62in the top quarter
264573
Creditor daysdays27
193556
Stock daysdays14below almost all
254290
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
- The newest accounts on file are 32 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 62 against 45 for the middle of 39 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 2
- 62 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 14 against 42 for the middle of 42 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 62since 1994
- 50since 2018
- 64since 2018
- 55since 2018
- 40since 2018
- 58since 2018
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £22M | 92 | £3.4M |
| 2022-12-31 | £22M | 96 | £4.1M |
| 2021-12-31 | not filed | 95 | £4.0M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£7.7M£12M
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.