What a buyer sees
KINGSTOWN ASSOCIATES LIMITED
Retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet · Driffield · 06742414
100staff · FY2023
18years trading
—oldest owner on file
£121kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£13Mfor 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
Staff100
2021118 → 1002023
Cash at bank£121k
2021£570k → £121k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£134,861in the bottom quarter
£134,596£237,777£572,902
Debtor daysdays3below almost all
820106
Creditor daysdays20
142558
Stock daysdays36in the middle half
1951115
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.
- Headcount fell from 113 to 100A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- 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
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 3 against 20 for the middle of 118 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 43since 2015
- 57since 2015
- 54since 2015
- 39since 2021
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £13M | 100 | £121k |
| 2022-12-31 | £16M | 113 | £460k |
| 2021-12-31 | £17M | 118 | £570k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.25–0.5× sales£3.4M£6.7M
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.