What a buyer sees
HOME DIRECT CARPETS LIMITED
Other retail sale not in stores, stalls or markets · Kent · 04591236
1staff · FY2023
24years trading
39oldest owner on file
£25kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£267kfor 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
Staff1
20212 → 12023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£267,100in the top quarter
£13,133£77,800£656,167
Debtor daysdays39in the middle half
1346120
Creditor daysdays1
938234
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
848345
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 33 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Headcount fell from 2 to 1A 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 2
- 24 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 267,100 against 77,800 for the middle of 61 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 39since 2026
Directors
No current directors loaded.
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-11-30 | £267k | 1 | £25k |
| 2022-11-30 | not filed | 2 | — |
| 2021-11-30 | not filed | 2 | — |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.25–0.5× sales£70k£130k
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.