What a buyer sees
RAVENWOOD PACKAGING LIMITED
Sale of new cars and light motor vehicles · Bury St. Edmunds · 05189924
77staff · FY2024
22years trading
—oldest owner on file
£79kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£20Mfor the year to 2024
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
Staff77
202162 → 772024
Cash at bank£79k
2021£4k → £79k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£257,066below almost all
£285,975£529,574£997,448
Debtor daysdays15in the middle half
71122
Creditor daysdays120
133263
Stock daysdays172above almost all
274874
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 29 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.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 172 against 48 for the middle of 120 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 2
- 22 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- 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
- 61since 2004
- since 2006
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £20M | 77 | £79k |
| 2023-03-31 | £24M | 79 | £341k |
| 2022-03-31 | £24M | 71 | £447k |
| 2021-03-31 | £18M | 62 | £4k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£7.9M£18M
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.