What a buyer sees
1ST WASTE MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS LIMITED
Management consultancy activities other than financial management · Hertford · 03736942
68staff · FY2024
27years trading
66oldest owner on file
£2.1Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£27Mfor 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
Staff68
202256 → 682024
Cash at bank£2.1M
2022£2.2M → £2.1M2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£403,115above almost all
£44,534£143,313£332,349
Debtor daysdays12below almost all
1556102
Creditor daysdays36
81953
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
525155
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 31 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
- 27 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 56 to 68Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 403,115 against 143,313 for the middle of 76 comparable companies.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 12 against 56 for the middle of 69 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 66since 2017
Directors
- since 1999
- 66since 1999
- 61since 2014
- 61since 2019
- 44since 2019
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-01-31 | £27M | 68 | £2.1M |
| 2023-01-31 | £27M | 56 | £3.1M |
| 2022-01-31 | £24M | 56 | £2.2M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.8–2× sales£22M£55M
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.