What a buyer sees
PHILIP RUSSELL LIMITED
Wholesale of wine, beer, spirits and other alcoholic beverages · Belfast · NI007326
233staff · FY2023
58years trading
—oldest owner on file
£9.4Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£91Mfor 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.
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£390,000in the middle half
£95,481£555,569£2,129,306
Debtor daysdays32in the middle half
134173
Creditor daysdays49
123788
Stock daysdays40in the middle half
1348122
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 2
- 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.
- 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
- 58 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 74since 2005
- 80since 2005
- 50since 2009
- 53since 2009
- since 2022
- 49since 2023
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £91M | 233 | £9.4M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£32M£50M
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.