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What a buyer sees

CAR GIANT LIMITED

Sale of used cars and light motor vehicles · London · 01407612

511staff · FY2023
47years trading
71oldest owner on file
£10Mcash at bank

Your turnover is on public record

filed
£491Mfor 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

Staff511
2021562 → 5112023
Cash at bank£10M
2021£4.9M → £10M2023

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employee£961,314in the top quarter
£961,314
£39,863£390,230£1,676,333
Debtor daysdays2below almost all
2
72180
Creditor daysdays2
2
81982
Stock daysdays33in the bottom quarter
33
2260189

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 4

  • 47 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 961,314 against 390,230 for the middle of 162 comparable companies.
  • Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 2 against 21 for the middle of 55 comparable companies.
  • Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 33 against 60 for the middle of 177 comparable companies.

What the register says

Owners

  • 71since 2024

Directors

  • 55since 2004
  • 62since 2016
  • 62since 2026
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2023-12-31£491M511£10M
2021-12-31£363M562£4.9M

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.4–0.9× sales
£196M
£442M

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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