What a buyer sees
CHARLES RANSFORD & SON LIMITED
Sawmilling and planing of wood · Bishops Castle · 01185122
56staff · FY2023
52years trading
55oldest owner on file
£10Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£17Mfor 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.
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£303,939in the middle half
£138,710£230,370£499,190
Debtor daysdays46in the middle half
174876
Creditor daysdays14
142845
Stock daysdays72in the middle half
2365101
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 1
- 52 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
- 55since 2016
Directors
- 55since 2011
- 63since 2011
- 55since 2019
- 63since 2019
- 54since 2023
- since 2024
- 85
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £17M | 56 | £10M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£6.8M£15M
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.