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What a buyer sees

ADVANCED LOGISTICS FOR AEROSPACE (UK) LIMITED

Wholesale of other intermediate products · Esher · 02265000

28staff · FY2023
38years trading
—oldest owner on file
£78kcash 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

Staff28
202128 → 282023
Cash at bank£78k
2021£84k → £78k2023

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employee£469,893in the middle half
£469,893
£203,282£375,200£883,733
Debtor daysdays143above almost all
143
416087
Creditor daysdays144
144
92068
Stock daysdays193above almost all
193
1763131

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 6

  • 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.
  • Everyone on the board is over 60There is no one on the register a buyer can see taking the business on. That is a discount if it stays that way and a negotiating point if it changes.
  • A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
  • Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 143 against 60 for the middle of 53 comparable companies. That gap is working capital a buyer has to fund on day one, and it comes off the price.
  • Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 193 against 63 for the middle of 49 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 3

  • 38 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
  • Headcount grew from 24 to 28Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
  • A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.

What the register says

Owners

Nobody recorded with significant control.

Directors

  • 65since 2016
  • 74since 2016
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2023-12-31£13M28£78k
2022-12-31£9.6M24£552k
2021-12-31£8.3M28£84k

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.35–0.55× sales
£4.6M
£7.2M

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.

Prepared by Qapital from public records, against 105,750 companies that did publish a turnover. No figure here was supplied by the company and none of it is advice. What it is missing is everything that actually sets a price: profitability, contracts, customer concentration, and whoever would run it next.

Tell us the rest

Your turnover is on file, but the things that set a price are not: margin, customer concentration, who would run it next. Tell us where you are and we will read it properly.

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