What a buyer sees
REFRIGERATED DELIVERY SERVICES LIMITED
Freight transport by road · Worksop · 03135165
105staff · FY2024
31years trading
67oldest owner on file
£543kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£11Mfor 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
Staff105
2022109 → 1052024
Cash at bank£543k
2022£1.7M → £543k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£105,303in the bottom quarter
£98,332£139,970£259,966
Debtor daysdays63in the middle half
335678
Creditor daysdays10
132644
Stock daysdays3below almost all
4623
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 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 117 to 105A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- 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
- 31 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 3 against 6 for the middle of 33 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 67since 2016
Directors
- 67since 1995
- since 2017
- 40since 2017
- 35since 2025
- 39since 2025
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £11M | 105 | £543k |
| 2023-03-31 | £11M | 117 | £1.2M |
| 2022-03-31 | £9.6M | 109 | £1.7M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£4.4M£9.9M
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.