What a buyer sees
FAIRWAY OF COURSE LIMITED
Other retail sale not in stores, stalls or markets · Stanmore · 04229016
27staff · FY2023
25years trading
51oldest owner on file
£362kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£13Mfor 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£467,593in the middle half
£48,228£445,748£1,241,629
Debtor daysdays2below almost all
1246110
Creditor daysdays28
143386
Stock daysdays59in the middle half
958124
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 2
- 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.
- 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
- 25 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 2 against 46 for the middle of 98 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 49since 2023
- 51since 2023
- 48since 2023
Directors
- 49since 2002
- 48since 2003
- 51since 2005
- 82since 2023
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £13M | 27 | £362k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.25–0.5× sales£3.2M£6.3M
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.