What a buyer sees
T BOURNE & SON LIMITED
Freight transport by road · East Sussex · 00447169
105staff · FY2023
79years trading
47oldest owner on file
£1.3Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£9.2Mfor 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
Staff105
202193 → 1052023
Cash at bank£1.3M
2021£992k → £1.3M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£87,880below almost all
£98,332£139,970£259,966
Debtor daysdays33below almost all
335678
Creditor daysdays45
132644
Stock daysdays2below almost all
4623
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 32 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 3
- 79 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 32 against 56 for the middle of 272 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 2 against 6 for the middle of 33 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 47since 2018
- 45since 2018
- 43since 2018
Directors
- 45since 2008
- 43since 2008
- 47since 2008
- 44since 2016
- since 2017
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £9.2M | 105 | £1.3M |
| 2022-12-31 | £12M | 103 | £743k |
| 2021-12-31 | not filed | 93 | £992k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£3.7M£8.3M
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.