What a buyer sees
HARDALL INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
Manufacture of other fabricated metal products n.e.c. · Dunstable · 02174882
77staff · FY2023
39years trading
—oldest owner on file
£434kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£11Mfor 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
Staff77
202168 → 772023
Cash at bank£434k
2021£2.3M → £434k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£147,433in the middle half
£86,854£141,664£294,750
Debtor daysdays88above almost all
325886
Creditor daysdays23
153455
Stock daysdays206above almost all
1350112
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 4
- The newest accounts on file are 38 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 88 against 58 for the middle of 131 comparable companies. That gap is working capital a buyer has to fund on day one, and it comes off the price.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 206 against 50 for the middle of 126 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 1
- 39 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- since 2004
- 38since 2016
- 34since 2023
- 38since 2024
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-06-30 | £11M | 77 | £434k |
| 2022-06-30 | £11M | 78 | £5.2M |
| 2021-06-30 | £10.0M | 68 | £2.3M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£4.5M£10M
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.