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What a buyer sees

G A IMPORTS LIMITED

Wholesale of wood, construction materials and sanitary equipment · Halstead · 05241777

5staff · FY2023
22years trading
65oldest owner on file
£209kcash at bank

Your turnover is on public record

filed
£3.2Mfor 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

Staff5
20224 → 52023
Cash at bank£209k
2022£113k → £209k2023

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employee£645,860in the top quarter
£645,860
£183,318£399,877£1,103,511
Debtor daysdays36in the middle half
36
235379
Creditor daysdays23
23
93667
Stock daysdays77in the top quarter
77
2244112

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 4

  • The newest accounts on file are 35 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
  • The register shows an owner past retirement age and little elseWithout directors on file, a buyer cannot tell who actually runs the business day to day.
  • Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 77 against 44 for the middle of 77 comparable companies. That gap is working capital a buyer has to fund on day one, and it comes off the price.
  • 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

  • 22 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
  • Headcount grew from 4 to 5Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
  • Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 645,860 against 399,877 for the middle of 82 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

  • 56since 2016
  • 65since 2016

Directors

  • since 2004
  • since 2004
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2023-09-30£3.2M5£209k
2022-09-30£3.6M4£113k

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.35–0.55× sales
£1.1M
£1.8M

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.

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