What a buyer sees
ENTEC INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
Other business support service activities n.e.c. · Birmingham · 02370079
55staff · FY2024
37years trading
68oldest owner on file
£1.0Mcash 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
Staff55
202246 → 552024
Cash at bank£1.0M
2022£1.4M → £1.0M2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£360,556in the top quarter
£45,518£151,784£486,559
Debtor daysdays104above almost all
1447102
Creditor daysdays50
92769
Stock daysdays18in the middle half
62889
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 31 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 104 against 47 for the middle of 279 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
- 37 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 46 to 55Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 360,556 against 151,784 for the middle of 348 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 65since 2016
- 68since 2016
Directors
- since 2000
- 59since 2009
- 41since 2017
- 38since 2022
- 53since 2024
- 68
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-01-31 | £20M | 55 | £1.0M |
| 2023-01-31 | £17M | 46 | £796k |
| 2022-01-31 | £19M | 46 | £1.4M |
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.