What a buyer sees
REGAL MANUFACTURING LIMITED
Manufacture of other electronic and electric wires and cables · Gainsborough · 00516559
24staff · FY2023
73years trading
—oldest owner on file
£6kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£15Mfor 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
Staff24
202174 → 242023
Cash at bank£6k
2021£196k → £6k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£631,008in the top quarter
£75,818£268,200£906,093
Debtor daysdays37in the middle half
225592
Creditor daysdays6
113064
Stock daysdays52in the middle half
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
- 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.
- Headcount fell from 50 to 24A 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 2
- 73 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 631,008 against 268,200 for the middle of 1,029 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 54since 2024
- 58since 2024
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £15M | 24 | £6k |
| 2022-12-31 | £21M | 50 | £13k |
| 2021-12-31 | £18M | 74 | £196k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£6.1M£14M
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.