What a buyer sees
OVENDEN PAPERS LIMITED
Wholesale of other intermediate products · Harlow · 00384116
52staff · FY2024
83years trading
65oldest owner on file
£50kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£46Mfor 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
Staff52
202255 → 522024
Cash at bank£50k
2022£105k → £50k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£881,321in the top quarter
£131,031£357,535£1,252,795
Debtor daysdays90above almost all
275789
Creditor daysdays18
102768
Stock daysdays41in the bottom quarter
2960130
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.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 90 against 57 for the middle of 98 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 4
- 83 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 881,321 against 357,535 for the middle of 102 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 41 against 60 for the middle of 90 comparable companies.
- A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.
What the register says
Owners
- 65since 2016
Directors
- 57since 1998
- 49since 2004
- since 2007
- 65
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £46M | 52 | £50k |
| 2023-03-31 | £45M | 55 | £59k |
| 2022-03-31 | £34M | 55 | £105k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£16M£25M
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.