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What a buyer sees

EUROPEAN POLYTHENE INDUSTRIES LIMITED

Non-specialised wholesale trade · Bedford · 04244932

22staff · FY2026
25years trading
59oldest owner on file
£37kcash at bank

Your turnover is on public record

filed
£22Mfor the year to 2026

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

Staff22
202327 → 222026
Cash at bank£37k
2023£67k → £37k2026

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employee£1,006,050in the top quarter
£1,006,050
£165,955£424,674£1,097,429
Debtor daysdays70in the middle half
70
225791
Creditor daysdays63
63
92661
Stock daysdays21below almost all
21
2262151

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 1

  • 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

  • 25 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 1,006,050 against 424,674 for the middle of 224 comparable companies.
  • Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 21 against 62 for the middle of 208 comparable companies.

What the register says

Owners

  • 58since 2019
  • 59since 2019

Directors

  • 58since 2007
  • 59since 2019
Accounts on public record
Year toFiledTurnoverStaffCash
2026-03-312026-08-18£22M22£37k
2024-03-31—not filed23£58k
2023-03-31—not filed27£67k

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.35–0.55× sales
£7.8M
£12M

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.

Prepared by Qapital from public records, against 105,750 companies that did publish a turnover. No figure here was supplied by the company and none of it is advice. What it is missing is everything that actually sets a price: profitability, contracts, customer concentration, and whoever would run it next.

Tell us the rest

Your turnover is on file, but the things that set a price are not: margin, customer concentration, who would run it next. Tell us where you are and we will read it properly.

Goes to one inbox. No list, no sequence, and we will not pass it on. We buy companies as well as advise on them, so if yours is one we would be interested in, we will tell you that before anything else happens.