What a buyer sees
GRETNA GREEN LTD
Other retail sale in non-specialised stores · Gretna · SC052082
241staff · FY2024
54years trading
59oldest owner on file
£4.5Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£14Mfor 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
Staff241
2022180 → 2412024
Cash at bank£4.5M
2022£6.3M → £4.5M2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£59,873below almost all
£61,651£116,680£308,862
Debtor daysdays8in the bottom quarter
82777
Creditor daysdays8
143162
Stock daysdays25in the bottom quarter
196993
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 30 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- 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 4
- 54 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 213 to 241Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 8 against 27 for the middle of 76 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 25 against 69 for the middle of 38 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 59since 2022
Directors
- 76since 2005
- 59since 2021
- 56since 2022
- 67since 2024
- 50since 2024
- 51since 2025
- 67
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-02-25 | £14M | 241 | £4.5M |
| 2023-02-26 | £13M | 213 | £5.4M |
| 2022-02-28 | £10M | 180 | £6.3M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.25–0.5× sales£3.6M£7.2M
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.