What a buyer sees
MARTON MILLS COMPANY LIMITED
Weaving of textiles · Otley · 00260993
48staff · FY2025
95years trading
85oldest owner on file
£479kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£7.5Mfor 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
Staff48
202157 → 482025
Cash at bank£479k
2021£1.5M → £479k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£156,713in the middle half
£75,818£268,200£906,093
Debtor daysdays69in the middle half
225592
Creditor daysdays22
113064
Stock daysdays139above almost all
1049126
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
- Headcount fell from 59 to 48A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 139 against 48 for the middle of 890 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 2
- 95 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.
What the register says
Owners
- 50since 2016
- 85since 2016
Directors
- 51since 2000
- 53since 2005
- 50since 2007
- 43since 2014
- 79
- 85
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 2026-09-03 | £7.5M | 48 | £479k |
| 2023-12-31 | — | £9.9M | 59 | £1.4M |
| 2022-12-31 | — | £8.9M | 54 | £1.2M |
| 2021-12-31 | — | £7.3M | 57 | £1.5M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£3.0M£6.8M
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.