What a buyer sees
INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGICAL SERVICES LIMITED
Research and experimental development on biotechnology · Hartley Wintney · 03264423
15staff · FY2024
30years trading
68oldest owner on file
£1.3Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£1.0Mfor the year to 2024
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
Staff15
202215 → 152024
Cash at bank£1.3M
2022£1.6M → £1.3M2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£66,940in the middle half
£28,358£136,156£699,758
Debtor daysdays139in the top quarter
1457178
Creditor daysdays15
1126130
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
734122
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 4
- The newest accounts on file are 31 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- 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.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 139 against 57 for the middle of 31 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
- 30 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
- 68since 2016
Directors
- 68since 1996
- since 2021
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-01-31 | £1.0M | 15 | £1.3M |
| 2023-01-31 | not filed | 14 | £1.6M |
| 2022-01-31 | £1.3M | 15 | £1.6M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£400k£900k
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.