What a buyer sees
WRC RECYCLING LIMITED
Recovery of sorted materials · Renfrew · SC370000
56staff · FY2022
17years trading
—oldest owner on file
£1.9Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£15Mfor the year to 2022
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
Staff56
202145 → 562022
Cash at bank£1.9M
2021£1.6M → £1.9M2022
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£263,638in the middle half
£103,767£334,257£1,115,355
Debtor daysdays67above almost all
154161
Creditor daysdays22
102751
Stock daysdays6in the bottom quarter
61791
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 53 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 67 against 41 for the middle of 62 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
- Headcount grew from 45 to 56Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 6 against 17 for the middle of 43 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 79since 2010
- 70since 2010
- 75since 2010
- 44since 2010
- 62since 2023
- 45since 2023
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-04-05 | £15M | 56 | £1.9M |
| 2021-04-05 | £9.7M | 45 | £1.6M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£5.9M£13M
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.