What a buyer sees
HAULAWAY LIMITED
Freight transport by road · Eastbourne · 02625194
56staff · FY2025
35years trading
64oldest owner on file
£187kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£8.8Mfor 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
Staff56
202241 → 562025
Cash at bank£187k
2022£160k → £187k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£157,170in the middle half
£98,332£139,970£259,966
Debtor daysdays46in the bottom quarter
335678
Creditor daysdays18
132644
Stock daysdays2below almost all
4623
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 last accounts went in 12 months after year endThe allowance is nine. A buyer reads a late filing as a question about the finance function rather than about the trading.
- Everyone on the board is over 60There is no one on the register a buyer can see taking the business on. That is a discount if it stays that way and a negotiating point if it changes.
- 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 5
- 35 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 44 to 56Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 46 against 56 for the middle of 272 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 2 against 6 for the middle of 33 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
- 64since 2016
Directors
- 64since 1991
- since 2003
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-30 | 2026-07-01 | £8.8M | 56 | £187k |
| 2023-06-30 | — | not filed | 44 | £533k |
| 2022-06-30 | — | not filed | 41 | £160k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£3.5M£7.9M
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.