What a buyer sees
MAISON MAURICE LIMITED
Wholesale of wine, beer, spirits and other alcoholic beverages · Gravesend · 01295119
36staff · FY2024
49years trading
71oldest owner on file
£2.5Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£18Mfor 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
Staff36
202236 → 362024
Cash at bank£2.5M
2022£1.9M → £2.5M2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£492,389in the middle half
£355,913£739,597£2,156,717
Debtor daysdays17below almost all
215072
Creditor daysdays10
123776
Stock daysdays34in the middle half
1662114
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 31 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.
- 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
- 49 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 17 against 50 for the middle of 39 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
- 71since 2016
- 70since 2016
Directors
- since 2003
- 71
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-01-31 | £18M | 36 | £2.5M |
| 2023-01-31 | £15M | 35 | £2.1M |
| 2022-01-31 | £14M | 36 | £1.9M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£6.2M£9.8M
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.