What a buyer sees
FDC (HOLDINGS) LIMITED
Operation of warehousing and storage facilities for land transport activities · Preston · 03327080
127staff · FY2024
29years trading
—oldest owner on file
£1.8Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£20Mfor 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.
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£160,980in the middle half
£65,733£158,517£806,409
Debtor daysdays53in the middle half
164785
Creditor daysdays12
112969
Stock daysdays0below almost all
41036
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 29 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 2
- 29 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 0 against 10 for the middle of 80 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 57since 1997
- 64since 1997
- since 2022
- 33since 2022
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £20M | 127 | £1.8M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£8.2M£18M
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.