What a buyer sees
COURIER LOGISTICS LIMITED
Freight transport by road · Sheffield · 02958861
150staff · FY2024
32years trading
—oldest owner on file
£182kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£21Mfor 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
Staff150
2022155 → 1502024
Cash at bank£182k
2022£39k → £182k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£140,813in the middle half
£98,332£139,970£259,966
Debtor daysdays41in the bottom quarter
335678
Creditor daysdays28
132644
Stock daysdays1below 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 2
- The newest accounts on file are 29 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 3
- 32 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 41 against 56 for the middle of 272 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 0 against 6 for the middle of 33 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 60since 1999
- 41since 2018
- since 2022
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £21M | 150 | £182k |
| 2023-03-31 | £22M | 156 | £4k |
| 2022-03-31 | £20M | 155 | £39k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£8.4M£19M
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.