What a buyer sees
UNION MART LIMITED
Retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet · Fareham · 08384155
46staff · FY2023
13years trading
71oldest owner on file
£314kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£12Mfor 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
Staff46
202167 → 462023
Cash at bank£314k
2021£903k → £314k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£265,202in the middle half
£70,666£281,221£926,979
Debtor daysdays4below almost all
82254
Creditor daysdays39
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 43 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Headcount fell from 66 to 46A 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 1
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 4 against 22 for the middle of 33 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 71since 2016
Directors
- 71since 2013
- 60since 2021
- 29since 2021
- 26since 2021
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-01-30 | £12M | 46 | £314k |
| 2022-01-30 | £18M | 66 | £146k |
| 2021-01-30 | not filed | 67 | £903k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.25–0.5× sales£3.0M£6.1M
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.