What a buyer sees
SLALEY HALL LODGES LIMITED
Hotels and similar accommodation · Bristol · 09677086
30staff · FY2023
11years trading
—oldest owner on file
£128kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£1.0Mfor 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
Staff30
202034 → 302023
Cash at bank£128k
2020£505k → £128k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£34,517in the bottom quarter
£29,898£61,265£204,705
Debtor daysdays7in the bottom quarter
71368
Creditor daysdays83
1023117
Stock daysdays987above almost all
4634
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 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.
- Headcount fell from 34 to 30A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 987 against 6 for the middle of 184 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
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 7 against 13 for the middle of 45 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 71since 2019
- since 2019
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £1.0M | 30 | £128k |
| 2022-12-31 | £1.2M | 34 | £24k |
| 2021-12-31 | £2.3M | 34 | £56k |
| 2020-12-31 | not filed | 34 | £505k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£410k£930k
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.