What a buyer sees
NARROW AISLE LIMITED
Manufacture of lifting and handling equipment · Brierley Hill · 01250894
78staff · FY2023
50years trading
—oldest owner on file
£83kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£32Mfor 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
Staff78
202179 → 782023
Cash at bank£83k
2021£638k → £83k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£410,047above almost all
£92,111£158,144£384,364
Debtor daysdays48in the middle half
335796
Creditor daysdays34
143588
Stock daysdays74in the top quarter
1850100
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.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 74 against 50 for the middle of 30 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
- 50 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 410,047 against 158,144 for the middle of 38 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 64since 2019
- 75since 2019
- since 2023
- 53since 2025
- 49since 2026
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £32M | 78 | £83k |
| 2022-12-31 | £30M | 74 | £308k |
| 2021-12-31 | £25M | 79 | £638k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£13M£29M
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.