What a buyer sees
GLASS AND GENERAL MAINTENANCE CO. LTD
Other manufacturing n.e.c. · Leigh-On-Sea · 07768732
2staff · FY2023
15years trading
36oldest owner on file
£3kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£1.4Mfor 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
Staff2
20217 → 22023
Cash at bank£3k
2021£4k → £3k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£695,450in the top quarter
£25,073£79,800£740,133
Debtor daysdays81in the top quarter
145398
Creditor daysdays34
82689
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
1245266
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 35 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Headcount fell from 4 to 2A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 81 against 53 for the middle of 69 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 695,450 against 79,800 for the middle of 73 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 29since 2017
- 36since 2016
- 29since 2017
- 36since 2017
- 31since 2017
- 33since 2017
- 36since 2017
- 29since 2017
Directors
No current directors loaded.
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-30 | £1.4M | 2 | £3k |
| 2022-09-30 | £906k | 4 | £21k |
| 2021-09-30 | £964k | 7 | £4k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£560k£1.3M
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.