What a buyer sees
DECORATIVE PANELS FURNITURE LIMITED
Manufacture of other furniture · Elland · 06773262
212staff · FY2024
18years trading
—oldest owner on file
£859kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£42Mfor 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
Staff212
2022204 → 2122024
Cash at bank£859k
2022£604k → £859k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£199,441in the top quarter
£92,426£123,071£219,747
Debtor daysdays39in the middle half
204873
Creditor daysdays35
142849
Stock daysdays72in the top quarter
93773
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 3
- 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.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 72 against 37 for the middle of 46 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
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 199,441 against 123,071 for the middle of 30 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 63since 2008
- 55since 2009
- 76since 2009
- 65since 2009
- 61since 2011
- 49since 2011
- 58since 2018
- 38since 2018
- 42since 2023
- 36since 2025
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £42M | 212 | £859k |
| 2023-03-31 | £39M | 205 | £293k |
| 2022-03-31 | £35M | 204 | £604k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£17M£38M
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.