What a buyer sees
IMPERIAL COACHES LIMITED
Other passenger land transport · Slough · 04267657
36staff · FY2023
25years trading
50oldest owner on file
£2.5Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£3.9Mfor 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
Staff36
202132 → 362023
Cash at bank£2.5M
2021£834k → £2.5M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£108,311in the middle half
£15,752£89,358£162,922
Debtor daysdays21in the middle half
92980
Creditor daysdays131
91972
Stock daysdays13in the middle half
41464
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 36 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 1
- 25 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
- 50since 2016
Directors
- 50since 2001
- 47since 2018
- since 2025
- 44since 2026
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-31 | £3.9M | 36 | £2.5M |
| 2022-08-31 | not filed | 34 | £2.6M |
| 2021-08-31 | not filed | 32 | £834k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£1.6M£3.5M
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.