What a buyer sees
TROY (UK) LIMITED
Non-specialised wholesale trade · Brighton · 07311366
90,000staff · FY2023
16years trading
—oldest owner on file
£112kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£231Mfor 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£2,571below almost all
£112,398£353,046£1,030,441
Debtor daysdays48in the middle half
185493
Creditor daysdays87
92866
Stock daysdays18below almost all
1855145
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
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 18 against 55 for the middle of 446 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 57since 2010
- 63since 2010
- 67since 2015
- 44since 2020
- 53since 2023
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £231M | 90000 | £112k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£81M£127M
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.