What a buyer sees
BDP IMPORTS LIMITED
Agents involved in the sale of furniture, household goods, hardware and ironmongery · Stroud · 04031966
57staff · FY2025
26years trading
—oldest owner on file
£7.7Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£31Mfor the year to 2025
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
Staff57
202145 → 572025
Cash at bank£7.7M
2021£6.2M → £7.7M2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£549,725in the top quarter
£98,596£257,484£692,330
Debtor daysdays20in the bottom quarter
123977
Creditor daysdays37
133163
Stock daysdays60in the middle half
1248117
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
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- 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
- 26 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 549,725 against 257,484 for the middle of 1,551 comparable companies.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 20 against 39 for the middle of 1,162 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 57since 2000
- 43since 2025
- 47since 2025
- 36since 2025
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-30 | 2026-08-20 | £31M | 57 | £7.7M |
| 2023-11-30 | — | £27M | 54 | £4.7M |
| 2022-11-30 | — | £51M | 56 | £5.7M |
| 2021-11-30 | — | £42M | 45 | £6.2M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£11M£17M
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.