What a buyer sees
GRANVILLE OIL & CHEMICALS LIMITED
Other treatment of petroleum products (excluding petrochemicals manufacture) · Rotherham · 01054646
62staff · FY2024
54years trading
—oldest owner on file
£787kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£30Mfor 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
Staff62
202252 → 622024
Cash at bank£787k
2022£44k → £787k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£480,494above almost all
£88,871£162,513£362,127
Debtor daysdays84in the top quarter
265687
Creditor daysdays48
143363
Stock daysdays39in the middle half
1245115
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 30 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 84 against 56 for the middle of 2,030 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 3
- 54 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 51 to 62Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 480,494 against 162,513 for the middle of 2,152 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 75since 2016
- 40since 2022
- 57since 2025
- 71since 2026
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £30M | 62 | £787k |
| 2023-03-31 | £28M | 51 | £668k |
| 2022-03-31 | £22M | 52 | £44k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£12M£27M
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.