What a buyer sees
C SPARKS & SONS LIMITED
Freight transport by road · Glastonbury · 01018080
118staff · FY2025
55years trading
—oldest owner on file
£189kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£21Mfor 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
Staff118
2022145 → 1182025
Cash at bank£189k
2022£149k → £189k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£182,191in the top quarter
£98,332£139,970£259,966
Debtor daysdays24below almost all
335678
Creditor daysdays22
132644
Stock daysdays2below almost all
4623
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 last accounts went in 12 months after year endThe allowance is nine. A buyer reads a late filing as a question about the finance function rather than about the trading.
- Headcount fell from 141 to 118A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- 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
- 55 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 182,191 against 139,970 for the middle of 279 comparable companies.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 24 against 56 for the middle of 272 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 2 against 6 for the middle of 33 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 55since 2013
- 47since 2018
- 61since 2026
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-31 | 2026-07-31 | £21M | 118 | £189k |
| 2024-01-31 | — | not filed | 141 | £183k |
| 2023-01-31 | — | not filed | 148 | £175k |
| 2022-01-31 | — | £16M | 145 | £149k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£8.6M£19M
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.