What a buyer sees
LANYON BOWDLER LLP
Shrewsbury · OC351948
224staff · FY2024
16years trading
56oldest owner on file
£21kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£16Mfor 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
Staff224
2023239 → 2242024
Cash at bank£21k
2023£49k → £21k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£71,430in the middle half
£19,100£114,401£651,101
Debtor daysdays66in the middle half
1245110
Creditor daysdays16
102888
Stock daysdays272above almost all
738149
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 28 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.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 272 against 38 for the middle of 14,704 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 0
Nothing stands out yet from the filings alone.
What the register says
Owners
- 52since 2017
- 45since 2017
- 56since 2017
- 49since 2017
- 54since 2021
- 55since 2022
Directors
- since 2011
- since 2011
- since 2011
- since 2014
- since 2014
- since 2014
- since 2014
- since 2015
- since 2018
- since 2018
- since 2019
- since 2019
- since 2020
- since 2020
- since 2020
- since 2021
- since 2021
- since 2021
- since 2022
- since 2022
- since 2022
- 46since 2022
- 65since 2023
- 52since 2023
- 53since 2024
- 42since 2024
- 43since 2024
- 57since 2025
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-30 | £16M | 224 | £21k |
| 2023-04-30 | £15M | 239 | £49k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£6.4M£14M
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.