What a buyer sees
INTERNATIONAL COPIERS UK LIMITED
Other service activities n.e.c. · Tunbridge Wells · 02927891
39staff · FY2023
32years trading
67oldest owner on file
£2.0Mcash 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
Staff39
202239 → 392023
Cash at bank£2.0M
2022£2.3M → £2.0M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£328,908in the top quarter
£29,383£100,320£558,377
Debtor daysdays63in the top quarter
113377
Creditor daysdays21
103361
Stock daysdays7below almost all
71498
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 41 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.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 63 against 33 for the middle of 148 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
- 32 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 328,908 against 100,320 for the middle of 197 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 7 against 14 for the middle of 113 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 67since 2016
- 63since 2016
Directors
- 67since 1995
- 63since 1995
- 64since 2018
- 62since 2018
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-03-31 | £13M | 39 | £2.0M |
| 2022-03-31 | £11M | 39 | £2.3M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£5.1M£12M
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.