What a buyer sees
BLUE DIAMOND PRODUCTS LIMITED
Non-specialised wholesale trade · Leeds · 04090477
19staff · FY2022
26years trading
62oldest owner on file
£240kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£13Mfor the year to 2022
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
Staff19
202125 → 192022
Cash at bank£240k
2021£444k → £240k2022
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£680,037in the top quarter
£165,955£424,674£1,097,429
Debtor daysdays83in the top quarter
225791
Creditor daysdays14
92661
Stock daysdays185above almost all
2262151
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 5
- The newest accounts on file are 45 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Headcount fell from 25 to 19A 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 83 against 57 for the middle of 200 comparable companies. That gap is working capital a buyer has to fund on day one, and it comes off the price.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 185 against 62 for the middle of 208 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 2
- 26 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 680,037 against 424,674 for the middle of 224 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 62since 2016
Directors
No current directors loaded.
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-11-30 | £13M | 19 | £240k |
| 2021-11-30 | not filed | 25 | £444k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£4.5M£7.1M
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.