What a buyer sees
FIELDING TRANSPORT (GRAYS) LIMITED
Other service activities n.e.c. · Leigh-On-Sea · 04193745
21staff · FY2024
25years trading
63oldest owner on file
£33kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£2.1Mfor the year to 2024
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
Staff21
202131 → 212024
Cash at bank£33k
2021£47k → £33k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£101,910in the middle half
£29,383£100,320£558,377
Debtor daysdays44in the middle half
113377
Creditor daysdays17
103361
Stock daysdays2below almost all
71498
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 28 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- 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.
- Headcount fell from 32 to 21A 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 3
- 25 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 2 against 14 for the middle of 113 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
- 63since 2016
Directors
- 63since 2001
- since 2003
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-30 | £2.1M | 21 | £33k |
| 2023-04-30 | not filed | 32 | £78k |
| 2022-04-30 | not filed | 32 | £117k |
| 2021-04-30 | not filed | 31 | £47k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£860k£1.9M
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.