What a buyer sees
GARDINER,SONS & CO.,LIMITED
Other retail sale in non-specialised stores · Bristol · 00039402
54staff · FY2022
133years trading
84oldest owner on file
£2.4Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£7.2Mfor the year to 2022
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
Staff54
202151 → 542022
Cash at bank£2.4M
2021£2.4M → £2.4M2022
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£134,093in the middle half
£61,651£116,680£308,862
Debtor daysdays8below almost all
82777
Creditor daysdays38
143162
Stock daysdays81in the middle half
196993
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 44 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 2
- 133 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 8 against 27 for the middle of 76 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 84since 2016
- 70since 2016
Directors
- 59since 2013
- 55since 2013
- 70since 2013
- 84since 2013
- 56since 2016
- 49since 2019
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-12-31 | £7.2M | 54 | £2.4M |
| 2021-12-31 | £6.2M | 51 | £2.4M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.25–0.5× sales£1.8M£3.6M
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.