What a buyer sees
WHITEFURZE LIMITED
Manufacture of other plastic products · Coventry · 01357459
52staff · FY2023
48years trading
—oldest owner on file
£42kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£19Mfor 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
Staff52
202159 → 522023
Cash at bank£42k
2021£144k → £42k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£358,079above almost all
£92,437£147,669£271,488
Debtor daysdays60in the middle half
325682
Creditor daysdays14
143154
Stock daysdays73in the top quarter
163978
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 4
- The newest accounts on file are 32 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 73 against 39 for the middle of 104 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
- 48 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 358,079 against 147,669 for the middle of 106 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 63since 2016
- 57since 2024
- 52since 2026
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £19M | 52 | £42k |
| 2022-12-31 | £17M | 53 | £48k |
| 2021-12-31 | £19M | 59 | £144k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£7.5M£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.