What a buyer sees
RUSSELL'S (KIRBYMOORSIDE) LIMITED
Wholesale of agricultural machinery, equipment and supplies · Malton · 00178738
248staff · FY2025
105years trading
—oldest owner on file
£7kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£109Mfor the year to 2025
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
Staff248
2023233 → 2482025
Cash at bank£7k
2023£9k → £7k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£441,126in the middle half
£249,366£499,300£1,125,928
Debtor daysdays34in the middle half
153453
Creditor daysdays89
1644109
Stock daysdays95in the middle half
5399183
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 1
- 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
- 105 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
- 59since 2001
- 71since 2003
- 73since 2003
- 52since 2023
- 41since 2023
- 48since 2023
- 67since 2023
- 44since 2025
- 70
- 74
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-31 | 2026-07-31 | £109M | 248 | £7k |
| 2023-10-31 | — | £106M | 233 | £9k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£38M£60M
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.