What a buyer sees
NEW ERA NORTH WEST LTD
Other education n.e.c. · Burnley · 03286650
25staff · FY2024
30years trading
—oldest owner on file
£423kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£220kfor 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
Staff25
202329 → 252024
Cash at bank£423k
2023£394k → £423k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£8,792below almost all
£9,186£51,936£164,653
Debtor daysdays124above almost all
1233108
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
81528
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
419161
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 5
- 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.
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- Headcount fell from 29 to 25A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 124 against 33 for the middle of 38 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
- 30 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
- 59since 2016
- 45since 2017
- 45since 2019
- 51since 2019
- 28since 2024
- since 2026
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £220k | 25 | £423k |
| 2023-03-31 | £155k | 29 | £394k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£90k£200k
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.