What a buyer sees
G S LIGHT HAULAGE LTD
Freight transport by road · Inverness · SC237004
7staff · FY2024
24years trading
—oldest owner on file
£21kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£827kfor 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
Staff7
202210 → 72024
Cash at bank£21k
2022£111k → £21k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£118,071in the top quarter
£9,997£22,800£208,610
Debtor daysdays76in the top quarter
93696
Creditor daysdays30
1027123
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
41036
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 29 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- Headcount fell from 10 to 7A 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 76 against 36 for the middle of 158 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 2
- 24 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 118,071 against 22,800 for the middle of 240 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 45since 2025
- 33since 2025
- 54since 2026
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £827k | 7 | £21k |
| 2023-03-31 | not filed | 10 | £64k |
| 2022-03-31 | not filed | 10 | £111k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£330k£740k
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.