What a buyer sees
KEMPS PUBLISHING LIMITED
Publishing of consumer and business journals and periodicals · Solihull · 02685392
23staff · FY2024
34years trading
68oldest owner on file
£177kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£1.5Mfor 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
Staff23
202223 → 232024
Cash at bank£177k
2022£210k → £177k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£63,735in the middle half
£17,433£102,976£251,616
Debtor daysdays68in the middle half
1352133
Creditor daysdays23
923100
Stock daysdays29in the middle half
51893
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 2
- 34 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
- 46since 2016
- 42since 2016
- 68since 2016
Directors
- 68since 1992
- 46since 2011
- 42since 2011
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £1.5M | 23 | £177k |
| 2023-03-31 | £1.5M | 23 | £203k |
| 2022-03-31 | £1.4M | 23 | £210k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£590k£1.3M
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.