What a buyer sees
IAN CRAIG (HAULAGE) LIMITED
Freight transport by road · Larbert · SC062837
86staff · FY2025
49years trading
64oldest owner on file
£1.2Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£14Mfor 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
Staff86
202196 → 862025
Cash at bank£1.2M
2021£1.5M → £1.2M2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£157,520in the middle half
£98,332£139,970£259,966
Debtor daysdays63in the middle half
335678
Creditor daysdays11
132644
Stock daysdays3below 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 2
- Headcount fell from 99 to 86A 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
- 49 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 3 against 6 for the middle of 33 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
- 64since 2016
Directors
- since 2013
- 62since 2013
- 56since 2013
- 86
- 64
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-30 | 2026-06-25 | £14M | 86 | £1.2M |
| 2023-09-30 | — | £14M | 99 | £1.2M |
| 2022-09-30 | — | £15M | 94 | £1.8M |
| 2021-09-30 | — | £14M | 96 | £1.5M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£5.4M£12M
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.