What a buyer sees
HULL & HUMBER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INDUSTRY & SHIPPING
Activities of business and employers membership organizations · East Yorkshire · 00009604
21staff · FY2023
151years trading
—oldest owner on file
£454kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£1.8Mfor 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
Staff21
202122 → 212023
Cash at bank£454k
2021£909k → £454k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£84,971in the middle half
£49,989£104,273£182,421
Debtor daysdays829above almost all
1151145
Creditor daysdays34
71944
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
71499
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 36 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.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 829 against 51 for the middle of 60 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 1
- 151 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 62since 1995
- since 2014
- 64since 2017
- 47since 2022
- 67since 2023
- 53since 2023
- 60since 2023
- 56since 2025
- 48since 2025
- 65since 2025
- 66since 2025
- 61since 2025
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-30 | £1.8M | 21 | £454k |
| 2022-09-30 | £2.3M | 21 | £1.0M |
| 2021-09-30 | £2.5M | 22 | £909k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£710k£1.6M
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.