What a buyer sees
W.R.SANDOW LIMITED
Support activities for crop production · Cornwall · 00786636
5staff · FY2023
62years trading
57oldest owner on file
£0kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£539kfor 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
Staff5
20215 → 52023
Cash at bank£0k
2021£14k → £0k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£107,820in the middle half
£9,630£78,587£1,849,584
Debtor daysdays44in the middle half
194192
Creditor daysdays17
1030116
Stock daysdays42in the middle half
1163329
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 2
- 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.
- 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
- 62 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.
What the register says
Owners
- 57since 2016
Directors
- since 1994
- 57since 2005
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £539k | 5 | £0k |
| 2022-12-31 | not filed | 5 | £0k |
| 2021-12-31 | not filed | 5 | £14k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£220k£490k
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.