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What a buyer sees

TOWNSON TRACTORS LIMITED

Sale of other motor vehicles · Skipton · 01776075

21staff · FY2025
43years trading
78oldest owner on file
£1.8Mcash at bank

Your turnover is on public record

filed
£20Mfor the year to 2025

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

Staff21
202127 → 212025
Cash at bank£1.8M
2021£826k → £1.8M2025

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employee£957,791in the middle half
£957,791
£336,913£806,870£1,935,113
Debtor daysdays16in the middle half
16
122174
Creditor daysdays20
20
1142120
Stock daysdays53in the bottom quarter
53
3682242

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

  • Headcount fell from 24 to 21A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
  • 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 2

  • 43 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
  • Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 53 against 82 for the middle of 38 comparable companies.

What the register says

Owners

  • 78since 2016

Directors

  • 40since 2023
Accounts on public record
Year toFiledTurnoverStaffCash
2025-10-312026-07-15£20M21£1.8M
2023-10-31—£21M24£125k
2022-10-31—£18M23£359k
2021-10-31—£15M27£826k

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.4–0.9× sales
£8.1M
£18M

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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