What a buyer sees
MARK 3 INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
Freight air transport · Colnbrook · 04036345
49staff · FY2023
26years trading
63oldest owner on file
£1.0Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£17Mfor 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
Staff49
202135 → 492023
Cash at bank£1.0M
2021£1.8M → £1.0M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£343,753in the middle half
£49,995£272,109£1,447,812
Debtor daysdays73in the top quarter
234986
Creditor daysdays46
102667
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
41464
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.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 73 against 49 for the middle of 212 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
- 26 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 36 to 49Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
What the register says
Owners
- 60since 2016
- 63since 2016
Directors
- 63since 2000
- 69since 2002
- 62since 2011
- 58since 2022
- 44since 2024
- 47since 2025
- 49since 2025
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £17M | 49 | £1.0M |
| 2022-12-31 | £21M | 36 | £1.8M |
| 2021-12-31 | £18M | 35 | £1.8M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£6.7M£15M
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.