What a buyer sees
FRESHLINC LIMITED
Freight transport by road · Spalding · 04100636
762staff · FY2024
26years trading
—oldest owner on file
£6kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£140Mfor 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
Staff762
2022508 → 7622024
Cash at bank£6k
2022£47k → £6k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£183,329above almost all
£79,245£114,246£182,857
Debtor daysdays58in the middle half
505975
Creditor daysdays39
173148
Stock daysdays1below almost all
41036
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 31 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- 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
- 26 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 623 to 762Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 183,329 against 114,246 for the middle of 32 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 1 against 10 for the middle of 64 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 60since 2000
- since 2000
- 70since 2000
- 54since 2013
- 56since 2021
- 55since 2021
- 42since 2026
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-02-03 | £140M | 762 | £6k |
| 2023-01-28 | £145M | 623 | £14k |
| 2022-01-29 | £128M | 508 | £47k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£56M£126M
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.