What a buyer sees
THE BOX FACTORY LIMITED
Manufacture of other paper and paperboard containers · Leamington Spa · 02664682
106staff · FY2023
35years trading
78oldest owner on file
£1.7Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£20Mfor 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
Staff106
202195 → 1062023
Cash at bank£1.7M
2021£1.5M → £1.7M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£189,316in the top quarter
£122,304£165,819£227,047
Debtor daysdays43below almost all
486398
Creditor daysdays31
224265
Stock daysdays12in the bottom quarter
92248
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 32 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 4
- 35 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 189,316 against 165,819 for the middle of 30 comparable companies.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 43 against 63 for the middle of 30 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 12 against 22 for the middle of 30 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 78since 2016
- 72since 2016
Directors
- 72since 1991
- 78since 1999
- 56since 2000
- 45since 2019
- 44since 2020
- 38since 2025
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £20M | 106 | £1.7M |
| 2022-12-31 | £21M | 97 | £1.7M |
| 2021-12-31 | £19M | 95 | £1.5M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£8.0M£18M
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.