What a buyer sees
USB INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
Retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet · Basildon · 04036237
26staff · FY2024
26years trading
57oldest owner on file
£1.3Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£16Mfor 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
Staff26
202120 → 262024
Cash at bank£1.3M
2021£3.2M → £1.3M2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£598,531in the top quarter
£70,666£281,221£926,979
Debtor daysdays12in the middle half
82254
Creditor daysdays14
122973
Stock daysdays64in the middle half
2870118
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 29 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 3
- 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 598,531 against 281,221 for the middle of 60 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
- 57since 2016
- 57since 2016
Directors
- since 2000
- 57since 2000
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £16M | 26 | £1.3M |
| 2023-03-31 | £19M | 24 | £1.4M |
| 2022-03-31 | £12M | 20 | £1.5M |
| 2021-03-31 | £10M | 20 | £3.2M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.25–0.5× sales£3.9M£7.8M
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.