What a buyer sees
ARROW BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED
Other telecommunications activities · Liverpool · 05643503
294staff · FY2023
21years trading
—oldest owner on file
£8.5Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£67Mfor 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
Staff294
2021166 → 2942023
Cash at bank£8.5M
2021£3.1M → £8.5M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£227,465in the middle half
£42,550£186,813£839,579
Debtor daysdays25in the middle half
1441108
Creditor daysdays16
92999
Stock daysdays1below almost all
41477
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 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.
- 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 3
- 21 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 173 to 294Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 1 against 14 for the middle of 44 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 52since 2015
- 55since 2017
- 42since 2024
- 55since 2025
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £67M | 294 | £8.5M |
| 2022-12-31 | £30M | 173 | £800k |
| 2021-12-31 | £30M | 166 | £3.1M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£27M£60M
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.