What a buyer sees
THEW ARNOTT & CO.LIMITED
Non-specialised wholesale trade · Wallington · 00718598
41staff · FY2024
64years trading
—oldest owner on file
£1.9Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£19Mfor 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
Staff41
202238 → 412024
Cash at bank£1.9M
2022£242k → £1.9M2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£465,759in the middle half
£165,955£424,674£1,097,429
Debtor daysdays51in the middle half
225791
Creditor daysdays27
92661
Stock daysdays29in the bottom quarter
2262151
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 29 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 2
- 64 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 29 against 62 for the middle of 208 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- since 1995
- 62since 2010
- 49since 2010
- 36since 2020
- 47since 2023
- 53since 2025
- 67
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £19M | 41 | £1.9M |
| 2022-03-31 | not filed | 38 | £242k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£6.7M£11M
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.