What a buyer sees
G.B. KENT & SONS PLC
Manufacture of brooms and brushes · Hemel Hempstead · 00066471
39staff · FY2023
126years trading
—oldest owner on file
£979kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£6.7Mfor 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
Staff39
202145 → 392023
Cash at bank£979k
2021£1.6M → £979k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£172,736in the middle half
£75,818£268,200£906,093
Debtor daysdays68in the middle half
225592
Creditor daysdays38
113064
Stock daysdays109in the top quarter
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.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 108 against 48 for the middle of 890 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
- 126 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
- 51since 2010
- 47since 2023
- 78
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £6.7M | 39 | £979k |
| 2022-12-31 | £11M | 39 | £2.2M |
| 2021-12-31 | £11M | 45 | £1.6M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£2.7M£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.