What a buyer sees
HARRIS TOBIAS LIMITED
Agents involved in the sale of a variety of goods · Mountfitchet · 00066810
5staff · FY2023
126years trading
—oldest owner on file
£806kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£49Mfor 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.
What your filings show moving
Staff5
20214 → 52023
Cash at bank£806k
2021£714k → £806k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£9,727,460above almost all
£13,917£152,993£575,900
Debtor daysdays26in the middle half
1246112
Creditor daysdays34
1023193
Stock daysdays7below almost all
1847148
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 3
- 126 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 9,727,460 against 152,993 for the middle of 46 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 7 against 47 for the middle of 42 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 44since 2013
- 49since 2024
- 62since 2025
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £49M | 5 | £806k |
| 2022-12-31 | £44M | 5 | £1.5M |
| 2021-12-31 | £20M | 4 | £714k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£17M£27M
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.