What a buyer sees
E.S. HARTLEY LIMITED
Sale of other motor vehicles · Kendal · 02909182
20staff · FY2023
32years trading
62oldest owner on file
£288kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£20Mfor 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
Staff20
202118 → 202023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£1,021,865in the middle half
£336,913£806,870£1,935,113
Debtor daysdays3below almost all
122174
Creditor daysdays56
1142120
Stock daysdays139in the middle half
3682242
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 32 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
- 32 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 3 against 21 for the middle of 59 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 62since 2016
- 57since 2018
Directors
- 62since 2004
- 57since 2018
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £20M | 20 | £288k |
| 2022-12-31 | £20M | 20 | — |
| 2021-12-31 | not filed | 18 | — |
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.