What a buyer sees
FREELAND HORTICULTURE LIMITED
Landscape service activities · Swanley · 04015968
39staff · FY2025
26years trading
—oldest owner on file
£669kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£12Mfor 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
Staff39
202142 → 392025
Cash at bank£669k
2021£1.7M → £669k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£295,085above almost all
£16,227£43,767£134,422
Debtor daysdays53in the middle half
123274
Creditor daysdays39
932241
Stock daysdays21in the middle half
637138
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 3
- Everyone on the board is over 60There is no one on the register a buyer can see taking the business on. That is a discount if it stays that way and a negotiating point if it changes.
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- 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
- 26 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 295,085 against 43,767 for the middle of 55 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
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 63since 2000
- 68since 2016
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-30 | 2026-06-24 | £12M | 39 | £669k |
| 2023-09-30 | — | £15M | 0 | £1.2M |
| 2022-09-30 | — | £14M | 47 | £1.6M |
| 2021-09-30 | — | £13M | 42 | £1.7M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£4.6M£10M
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.