What a buyer sees
INSOLVENCY PRACTITIONERS ASSOCIATION
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36staff · FY2023
53years trading
—oldest owner on file
£3.6Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£3.6Mfor 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
Staff36
202132 → 362023
Cash at bank£3.6M
2021£3.7M → £3.6M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£100,967in the middle half
£34,913£67,789£173,197
Debtor daysdays13in the bottom quarter
1239120
Creditor daysdays2
81762
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
71499
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 32 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- 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
- 53 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 13 against 39 for the middle of 45 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 62since 2014
- 60since 2019
- 52since 2020
- 49since 2021
- 59since 2021
- 60since 2022
- 56since 2023
- 58since 2023
- 50since 2023
- 42since 2024
- 52since 2024
- since 2024
- 66since 2026
- 51since 2026
- 52since 2026
- 42since 2026
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £3.6M | 36 | £3.6M |
| 2022-12-31 | £3.3M | 35 | £4.1M |
| 2021-12-31 | £3.5M | 32 | £3.7M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£1.4M£3.3M
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.