What a buyer sees
BRYAN W. NASH & SONS LIMITED
Agents selling agricultural raw materials, livestock, textile raw materials and semi-finished goods · Dorking · 01145449
16staff · FY2024
53years trading
62oldest owner on file
£7.1Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£54Mfor the year to 2024
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
Staff16
20218 → 162024
Cash at bank£7.1M
2021£6.7M → £7.1M2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£3,357,788above almost all
£87,459£464,006£1,513,474
Debtor daysdays43in the middle half
154790
Creditor daysdays31
102974
Stock daysdays12in the bottom quarter
1150141
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
- The newest accounts on file are 27 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- 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.
- 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 5
- 53 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 13 to 16Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 3,357,788 against 464,006 for the middle of 1,880 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 12 against 50 for the middle of 1,657 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
- 62since 2016
Directors
- 61since 2004
- 62
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-31 | £54M | 16 | £7.1M |
| 2023-05-31 | £52M | 13 | £5.7M |
| 2022-05-31 | £38M | 11 | £8.3M |
| 2021-05-31 | £34M | 8 | £6.7M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£19M£30M
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.