What a buyer sees
DMJ DRAINAGE LIMITED
Support activities for crop production · Theddlethorpe · 04182351
80staff · FY2023
25years trading
—oldest owner on file
£41kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£19Mfor 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
Staff80
202139 → 802023
Cash at bank£41k
2021£628k → £41k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£232,250in the top quarter
£67,121£151,072£330,129
Debtor daysdays41in the middle half
194192
Creditor daysdays52
132962
Stock daysdays60in the middle half
942145
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 3
- 25 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 39 to 80Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 232,250 against 151,072 for the middle of 127 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 50since 2001
- 49since 2014
- 39since 2016
- since 2022
- 21since 2023
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £19M | 80 | £41k |
| 2021-12-31 | not filed | 39 | £628k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£7.4M£17M
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.