What a buyer sees
KETTLEWELL COLOURS LIMITED
Retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet · St. Columb · 05108080
43staff · FY2024
22years trading
—oldest owner on file
£609kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£8.6Mfor 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
Staff43
202129 → 432024
Cash at bank£609k
2021£4.8M → £609k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£200,777in the middle half
£70,666£281,221£926,979
Debtor daysdays236above almost all
82254
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
122973
Stock daysdays42in the middle half
2870118
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 31 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 236 against 22 for the middle of 33 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
- 22 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 34 to 43Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 58since 2004
- 60since 2022
- 37since 2022
- 47since 2022
- 62since 2022
- 67since 2022
- 41since 2022
- 42since 2023
- 41since 2024
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-01-31 | £8.6M | 43 | £609k |
| 2022-04-30 | not filed | 34 | £5.6M |
| 2021-04-30 | not filed | 29 | £4.8M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.25–0.5× sales£2.2M£4.3M
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.