What a buyer sees
BMB CLOTHING LIMITED
Wholesale of clothing and footwear · Leeds · 04090249
434staff · FY2023
26years trading
—oldest owner on file
£3.9Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£49Mfor 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
Staff434
2023611 → 4342023
Cash at bank£3.9M
2023£1.5M → £3.9M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£113,804in the bottom quarter
£68,173£345,988£1,372,049
Debtor daysdays8below almost all
164598
Creditor daysdays34
113092
Stock daysdays77in the middle half
1575165
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 611 to 434A 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 2
- 26 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 8 against 45 for the middle of 114 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 48since 2014
- 68since 2022
- 54since 2024
- 28since 2025
- 56since 2026
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £49M | 434 | £3.9M |
| 2023-01-28 | £83M | 611 | £1.5M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£17M£27M
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.