What a buyer sees
HOLDCROFT RENAULT LIMITED
Sale of new cars and light motor vehicles · Stoke On Trent · 02216760
144staff · FY2025
38years trading
—oldest owner on file
£8.0Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£174Mfor 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
Staff144
2023130 → 1442025
Cash at bank£8.0M
2023£2.6M → £8.0M2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£1,205,580above almost all
£285,975£529,574£997,448
Debtor daysdays8in the bottom quarter
71122
Creditor daysdays105
133263
Stock daysdays90above almost all
274874
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
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 90 against 48 for the middle of 120 comparable companies. That gap is working capital a buyer has to fund on day one, and it comes off the price.
- 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 4
- 38 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 130 to 144Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 1,205,580 against 529,574 for the middle of 120 comparable companies.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 8 against 11 for the middle of 63 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 55since 1999
- 81since 2012
- 55since 2023
- 50since 2023
- 79
- 59
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 2026-08-18 | £174M | 144 | £8.0M |
| 2023-12-31 | — | £135M | 130 | £2.6M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£69M£156M
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.