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What a buyer sees

G.A.E. SMITH (HOLDINGS) LIMITED

Collection of non-hazardous waste · Telford · 01075198

130staff · FY2021
54years trading
—oldest owner on file
£12Mcash at bank

Your turnover is on public record

filed
£35Mfor the year to 2021

Unusual at this size, and it works in your favour: a buyer is reading your number rather than guessing at one.

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employee£269,242in the top quarter
£269,242
£104,145£187,862£306,258
Debtor daysdays36below almost all
36
365176
Creditor daysdays30
30
183348
Stock daysdays5in the bottom quarter
5
51444

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 57 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 4

  • 54 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 269,242 against 187,862 for the middle of 43 comparable companies.
  • Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 36 against 51 for the middle of 43 comparable companies.
  • Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 5 against 14 for the middle of 41 comparable companies.

What the register says

Owners

Nobody recorded with significant control.

Directors

  • 46since 2009
  • 58since 2021
  • 56since 2023
  • 57since 2025
  • 63
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2021-11-30£35M130£12M

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.4–0.9× sales
£14M
£32M

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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