What a buyer sees
INTERNATIONAL PLYWOOD (IMPORTERS) LIMITED
Non-specialised wholesale trade · Stonehouse · 01537086
55staff · FY2023
45years trading
—oldest owner on file
£17Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£194Mfor the year to 2023
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
Staff55
202154 → 552023
Cash at bank£17M
2021£29M → £17M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£3,527,900above almost all
£121,758£262,690£455,471
Debtor daysdays64in the middle half
195078
Creditor daysdays36
113257
Stock daysdays96in the top quarter
2052120
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 41 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 96 against 52 for the middle of 124 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 2
- 45 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 3,527,900 against 262,690 for the middle of 130 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 53since 2000
- 49since 2004
- 64since 2007
- 56since 2013
- 59since 2016
- 64since 2020
- 66since 2020
- 58since 2024
- 41since 2025
- 78
- 78
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-04-30 | £194M | 55 | £17M |
| 2022-04-30 | £228M | 55 | £3.9M |
| 2021-04-30 | £180M | 54 | £29M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£68M£107M
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.