What a buyer sees
VIVA ENTERPRISES LIMITED
Retail sale of electrical household appliances in specialised stores · 02076721
54staff · FY2023
40years trading
—oldest owner on file
£5.1Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£14Mfor 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
Staff54
202255 → 542023
Cash at bank£5.1M
2022£7.0M → £5.1M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£260,374in the middle half
£98,596£257,484£692,330
Debtor daysdays22in the bottom quarter
123977
Creditor daysdays25
133163
Stock daysdays113in the top quarter
1248117
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 5
- 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.
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 113 against 48 for the middle of 1,442 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
- 40 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 22 against 39 for the middle of 1,162 comparable companies.
- 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 2007
- 69
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-03-31 | £14M | 54 | £5.1M |
| 2022-03-31 | £13M | 55 | £7.0M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.25–0.5× sales£3.5M£7.0M
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.