What a buyer sees
EVENT MERCHANDISING LIMITED
Non-specialised wholesale trade · London · 01618411
65staff · FY2025
44years trading
—oldest owner on file
£4.7Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£15Mfor the year to 2025
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
Staff65
202124 → 652025
Cash at bank£4.7M
2021£2.7M → £4.7M2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£227,043in the middle half
£121,758£262,690£455,471
Debtor daysdays45in the middle half
195078
Creditor daysdays41
113257
Stock daysdays24in the bottom quarter
2052120
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 last accounts went in 11 months after year endThe allowance is nine. A buyer reads a late filing as a question about the finance function rather than about the trading.
- 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 4
- 44 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 31 to 65Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 24 against 52 for the middle of 124 comparable companies.
- A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 54since 1999
- 52since 2012
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-30 | 2026-06-24 | £15M | 65 | £4.7M |
| 2023-06-30 | — | £12M | 31 | £6.0M |
| 2022-06-30 | — | not filed | 26 | £4.4M |
| 2021-06-30 | — | not filed | 24 | £2.7M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£5.2M£8.1M
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.