What a buyer sees
J.P. MACKIE & COMPANY LTD.
Dispensing chemist in specialised stores · Glasgow · SC194112
100staff · FY2023
27years trading
53oldest owner on file
£513kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£14Mfor 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
Staff100
202192 → 1002023
Cash at bank£513k
2021£87k → £513k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£135,186in the middle half
£95,753£142,090£223,271
Debtor daysdays29in the middle half
263053
Creditor daysdays42
284463
Stock daysdays19in the middle half
131935
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 38 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 1
- 27 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
- 53since 2016
- 51since 2016
Directors
- 53since 1999
- since 2010
- 33since 2024
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-06-30 | £14M | 100 | £513k |
| 2022-05-31 | £11M | 93 | £188k |
| 2021-05-31 | £10M | 92 | £87k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.25–0.5× sales£3.4M£6.8M
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.