What a buyer sees
MANORVIEW HOTELS LIMITED
Hotels and similar accommodation · Johnstone · SC276964
524staff · FY2024
22years trading
54oldest owner on file
£1.4Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£24Mfor 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
Staff524
2021412 → 5242024
Cash at bank£1.4M
2021£2.1M → £1.4M2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£46,221in the middle half
£40,411£48,015£81,664
Debtor daysdays0below almost all
71368
Creditor daysdays39
112039
Stock daysdays2below almost all
4634
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.
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- 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
- 22 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 0 against 13 for the middle of 252 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 2 against 6 for the middle of 184 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 54since 2016
Directors
- 54since 2005
- 49since 2019
- 33since 2021
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £24M | 524 | £1.4M |
| 2023-03-31 | £24M | 532 | £1.1M |
| 2022-03-31 | £17M | 550 | £5.8M |
| 2021-03-31 | £2.4M | 412 | £2.1M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£9.7M£22M
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.