What a buyer sees
KEEPME LIFESTYLE LIMITED
Wholesale of perfume and cosmetics · Epping · 12000276
11staff · FY2023
7years trading
58oldest owner on file
£163kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£5.8Mfor 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
Staff11
202112 → 112023
Cash at bank£163k
2021£66k → £163k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£525,455in the middle half
£65,917£414,959£1,221,015
Debtor daysdays107above almost all
1345100
Creditor daysdays74
112576
Stock daysdays19in the bottom quarter
1994179
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 3
- The newest accounts on file are 34 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 106 against 45 for the middle of 43 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
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 19 against 94 for the middle of 52 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 58since 2019
- 56since 2019
Directors
- 42since 2019
- 56since 2019
- 58since 2019
- 34since 2022
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-10-31 | £5.8M | 11 | £163k |
| 2022-10-31 | not filed | 12 | £29k |
| 2021-10-31 | not filed | 12 | £66k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£2.0M£3.2M
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.