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What a buyer sees

TEMPLE FARM LIMITED

Retail sale of automotive fuel in specialised stores · Aylesford · 06893280

203staff · FY2023
17years trading
58oldest owner on file
£1.8Mcash at bank

Your turnover is on public record

filed
£28Mfor 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

Staff203
2021172 → 2032023
Cash at bank£1.8M
2021£1.5M → £1.8M2023

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employee£136,570in the bottom quarter
£136,570
£93,012£394,088£1,366,320
Debtor daysdays2below almost all
2
123977
Creditor daysdays17
17
122037
Stock daysdays13in the top quarter
13
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 3

  • The newest accounts on file are 32 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
  • Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 13 against 8 for the middle of 34 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

  • Headcount grew from 172 to 203Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
  • Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 2 against 39 for the middle of 1,162 comparable companies.
  • A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.

What the register says

Owners

  • 58since 2016

Directors

  • 58since 2009
  • 56since 2009
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2023-12-31£28M203£1.8M
2021-12-31£25M172£1.5M

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.25–0.5× sales
£6.9M
£14M

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.

Prepared by Qapital from public records, against 105,750 companies that did publish a turnover. No figure here was supplied by the company and none of it is advice. What it is missing is everything that actually sets a price: profitability, contracts, customer concentration, and whoever would run it next.

Tell us the rest

Your turnover is on file, but the things that set a price are not: margin, customer concentration, who would run it next. Tell us where you are and we will read it properly.

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