What a buyer sees
DELGA PRESS LIMITED
Manufacture of other paper and paperboard containers · Medway City Estate Rochester · 00667727
66staff · FY2024
66years trading
—oldest owner on file
£8kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£6.6Mfor 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
Staff66
202364 → 662024
Cash at bank£8k
2023£431k → £8k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£100,335below almost all
£122,304£165,819£227,047
Debtor daysdays56in the middle half
486398
Creditor daysdays22
224265
Stock daysdays19in the middle half
92248
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 31 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 2
- 66 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 56since 2008
- 57since 2015
- 51since 2015
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-01-31 | £6.6M | 66 | £8k |
| 2023-01-31 | £8.5M | 64 | £431k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£2.6M£6.0M
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.