What a buyer sees
PALFINGER TAIL LIFTS LIMITED
Agents specialized in the sale of other particular products · Hertford · 01019643
8staff · FY2023
55years trading
—oldest owner on file
£479kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£1.2Mfor 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
Staff8
202110 → 82023
Cash at bank£479k
2021£88k → £479k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£152,025in the bottom quarter
£76,518£314,975£863,367
Debtor daysdays53in the middle half
2255105
Creditor daysdays13
831102
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
1253123
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 32 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- One director on the registerA buyer's first question about a company run by one person is what happens to it if that person stops. It is usually the first thing priced.
- Everyone on the board is over 60There is no one on the register a buyer can see taking the business on. That is a discount if it stays that way and a negotiating point if it changes.
- Headcount fell from 10 to 8A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- 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
- 55 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
- 61since 2023
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £1.2M | 8 | £479k |
| 2021-12-31 | £1.5M | 10 | £88k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£430k£670k
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.