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What a buyer sees

SALFORD VAN HIRE LIMITED

Renting and leasing of trucks and other heavy vehicles · 00864602

181staff · FY2021
61years trading
89oldest owner on file
£653kcash at bank

Your turnover is on public record

filed
£77Mfor the year to 2021

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 you
Sales per employee£422,752in the top quarter
£422,752
£43,601£164,155£516,372
Debtor daysdays78in the top quarter
78
165092
Creditor daysdays97
97
92573
Stock daysdays1below almost all
1
62077

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 4

  • The newest accounts on file are 56 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.
  • Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 78 against 50 for the middle of 607 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 4

  • 61 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 422,752 against 164,155 for the middle of 732 comparable companies.
  • Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 0 against 20 for the middle of 194 comparable companies.
  • A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.

What the register says

Owners

  • 89since 2025
  • 49since 2025

Directors

  • 49since 2002
  • 65since 2015
  • 60
  • 89
  • 72
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2021-12-31£77M181£653k

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.4–0.9× sales
£31M
£69M

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.

Prepared by Qapital from public records, against 105,750 companies that did publish a turnover. No figure here was supplied by the company and none of it is advice. What it is missing is everything that actually sets a price: profitability, contracts, customer concentration, and whoever would run it next.

Tell us the rest

Your turnover is on file, but the things that set a price are not: margin, customer concentration, who would run it next. Tell us where you are and we will read it properly.

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