What a buyer sees
BURCOMBE HAULAGE LIMITED
Freight transport by road · Plymouth · 03847630
109staff · FY2023
27years trading
—oldest owner on file
£834kcash 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
Staff109
202186 → 1092023
Cash at bank£834k
2021£502k → £834k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£159,262in the middle half
£98,332£139,970£259,966
Debtor daysdays62in the middle half
335678
Creditor daysdays28
132644
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
4623
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 35 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 1
- 27 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 40since 2013
- 43since 2013
- 58since 2016
- 49since 2019
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-30 | £17M | 109 | £834k |
| 2022-09-30 | £18M | 103 | £833k |
| 2021-09-30 | £15M | 86 | £502k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£6.9M£16M
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.