What a buyer sees
BILLING SERVICE STATION LTD.
Retail sale of automotive fuel in specialised stores · Milton Keynes · 02731415
20staff · FY2025
34years trading
72oldest owner on file
£25kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£13Mfor 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
Staff20
202118 → 202025
Cash at bank£25k
2021£189k → £25k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£651,150in the top quarter
£93,012£394,088£1,366,320
Debtor daysdays5below almost all
154790
Creditor daysdays14
122037
Stock daysdays4below almost all
5818
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
- 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 4
- 34 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 651,150 against 394,088 for the middle of 37 comparable companies.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 5 against 47 for the middle of 1,452 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 4 against 8 for the middle of 34 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 72since 2024
Directors
- since 1992
- 72since 1992
- 67since 2023
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-30 | 2026-08-12 | £13M | 20 | £25k |
| 2023-11-30 | — | £12M | 20 | £119k |
| 2022-11-30 | — | not filed | 20 | £157k |
| 2021-11-30 | — | not filed | 18 | £189k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.25–0.5× sales£3.3M£6.5M
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.