What a buyer sees
ADVANCED MAINTENANCE SUPPLIES LIMITED
Wholesale of other machinery and equipment · Halesowen · 03644623
94staff · FY2023
28years trading
—oldest owner on file
£1.0Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£39Mfor 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
Staff94
202183 → 942023
Cash at bank£1.0M
2021£2.9M → £1.0M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£419,218in the top quarter
£113,986£253,764£722,745
Debtor daysdays80in the middle half
3062109
Creditor daysdays36
103775
Stock daysdays24in the bottom quarter
2062141
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 32 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
- 28 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 419,218 against 253,764 for the middle of 78 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 24 against 62 for the middle of 74 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- since 1998
- 54since 1998
- 41since 2022
- 59since 2022
- 47since 2024
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £39M | 94 | £1.0M |
| 2022-12-31 | £32M | 87 | £3.0M |
| 2021-12-31 | £26M | 83 | £2.9M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£14M£22M
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.