What a buyer sees
WEST BUILDING SUPPLIES LIMITED
Other retail sale of new goods in specialised stores (not commercial art galleries and opticians) · Bridlington · 04339991
59staff · FY2023
25years trading
78oldest owner on file
£404kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£10Mfor 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.
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£176,627in the middle half
£58,818£107,113£356,036
Debtor daysdays45in the top quarter
112895
Creditor daysdays46
162561
Stock daysdays68in the middle half
2260109
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 41 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 45 against 28 for the middle of 46 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 1
- 25 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
- 78since 2016
Directors
- since 2001
- 50since 2015
- 33since 2018
- 48since 2024
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-03-31 | £10M | 59 | £404k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.25–0.5× sales£2.6M£5.2M
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.