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What a buyer sees

MARATHON WAREHOUSE DISTRIBUTION LIMITED

Wholesale trade of motor vehicle parts and accessories · London · 01441215

147staff · FY2021
47years trading
65oldest owner on file
£80kcash at bank

Your turnover is on public record

filed
£16Mfor 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£109,571in the bottom quarter
£109,571
£103,811£183,100£384,330
Debtor daysdays68in the middle half
68
195186
Creditor daysdays55
55
183763
Stock daysdays46in the bottom quarter
46
4175148

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.
  • One director on the registerA buyer's first question about a company run by one person is what happens to it if that person stops. It is usually the first thing priced.
  • Everyone on the board is over 60There is no one on the register a buyer can see taking the business on. That is a discount if it stays that way and a negotiating point if it changes.
  • 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

  • 47 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 46 against 75 for the middle of 44 comparable companies.

What the register says

Owners

  • 65since 2016

Directors

  • 65
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2021-12-31£16M147£80k

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.4–0.9× sales
£6.4M
£15M

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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