What a buyer sees
PERRYWOOD GARDEN CENTRE & NURSERIES LIMITED
Retail sale of flowers, plants, seeds, fertilizers, pet animals and pet food in specialised stores · Colchester · 03748436
176staff · FY2022
27years trading
—oldest owner on file
£3.9Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£12Mfor 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
Staff176
2021175 → 1762022
Cash at bank£3.9M
2021£4.6M → £3.9M2022
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£67,797in the middle half
£29,270£63,997£149,228
Debtor daysdays0below almost all
123977
Creditor daysdays16
143160
Stock daysdays60in the middle half
2859102
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 49 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
- 27 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 0 against 39 for the middle of 1,162 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 75since 1999
- 47since 2017
- 45since 2017
- 49since 2017
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-07-31 | £12M | 176 | £3.9M |
| 2021-07-31 | £11M | 175 | £4.6M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.25–0.5× sales£3.0M£6.0M
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.