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What a buyer sees

KETTLER (G.B.) LIMITED

Wholesale of household goods (other than musical instruments) n.e.c. · North Moons Moat · 01937415

64staff · FY2023
41years trading
60oldest owner on file
£948kcash at bank

Your turnover is on public record

filed
£24Mfor 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.

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employee£374,041in the middle half
£374,041
£179,345£328,550£565,072
Debtor daysdays25in the bottom quarter
25
225072
Creditor daysdays68
68
111947
Stock daysdays140above almost all
140
3774132

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 4

  • The newest accounts on file are 35 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
  • A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
  • Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 140 against 74 for the middle of 43 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

  • 41 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 25 against 50 for the middle of 41 comparable companies.

What the register says

Owners

  • 60since 2022

Directors

  • since 1999
  • 61since 2023
  • 60since 2025
  • 55since 2026
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2023-09-30£24M64£948k

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.35–0.55× sales
£8.4M
£13M

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.

Prepared by Qapital from public records, against 105,750 companies that did publish a turnover. No figure here was supplied by the company and none of it is advice. What it is missing is everything that actually sets a price: profitability, contracts, customer concentration, and whoever would run it next.

Tell us the rest

Your turnover is on file, but the things that set a price are not: margin, customer concentration, who would run it next. Tell us where you are and we will read it properly.

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