What a buyer sees
AMENITY HORTICULTURAL SERVICES LIMITED
Other retail sale of new goods in specialised stores (not commercial art galleries and opticians) · Rye · 02803955
21staff · FY2023
33years trading
72oldest owner on file
£6kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£15Mfor the year to 2023
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
202120 → 212023
Cash at bank£6k
2021£1.7M → £6k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£716,043above almost all
£33,133£90,563£467,786
Debtor daysdays96above almost all
112895
Creditor daysdays23
102775
Stock daysdays19below almost all
2166197
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 5
- The newest accounts on file are 40 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- The register shows an owner past retirement age and little elseWithout directors on file, a buyer cannot tell who actually runs the business day to day.
- Headcount fell from 26 to 21A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 96 against 28 for the middle of 46 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
- 33 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 716,043 against 90,562 for the middle of 116 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 19 against 66 for the middle of 105 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 72since 2016
Directors
No current directors loaded.
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-04-30 | £15M | 21 | £6k |
| 2022-04-30 | £16M | 26 | £492k |
| 2021-04-30 | not filed | 20 | £1.7M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.25–0.5× sales£3.8M£7.5M
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.