What a buyer sees
DEAN CLOUGH LIMITED
Buying and selling of own real estate · Halifax · 01635454
18staff · FY2024
44years trading
64oldest owner on file
£1.8Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£5.9Mfor 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
Staff18
202126 → 182024
Cash at bank£1.8M
2021£2.3M → £1.8M2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£326,067in the middle half
£43,756£511,262£1,710,763
Debtor daysdays31in the middle half
1034193
Creditor daysdays24
826176
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
13177811
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 29 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Everyone on the board is over 60There is no one on the register a buyer can see taking the business on. That is a discount if it stays that way and a negotiating point if it changes.
- 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 1
- 44 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
- 64since 2016
Directors
- since 2025
- 64
- 79
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £5.9M | 18 | £1.8M |
| 2023-03-31 | £6.8M | 20 | £1.7M |
| 2022-03-31 | £7.4M | 21 | £2.3M |
| 2021-03-31 | £7.5M | 26 | £2.3M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
3–8× sales£18M£47M
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.