What a buyer sees
FORDS CHESHIRE LIMITED
Sale of used cars and light motor vehicles · Valley R, Winsford · 03759007
7staff · FY2023
27years trading
—oldest owner on file
£761kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£110Mfor 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
Staff7
20216 → 72023
Cash at bank£761k
2021£963k → £761k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£15,721,971above almost all
£20,851£143,100£1,531,640
Debtor daysdays1below almost all
72180
Creditor daysdays1
71393
Stock daysdays51in the middle half
2165265
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 4
- 27 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 6 to 7Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 15,721,971 against 143,100 for the middle of 75 comparable companies.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 1 against 21 for the middle of 55 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 69since 1999
- 37since 2018
- 37since 2018
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £110M | 7 | £761k |
| 2021-12-31 | £84M | 6 | £963k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£44M£99M
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.