What a buyer sees
SHENLEY FARMS (ENGINEERING) LIMITED
Service activities incidental to air transportation · Ashford · 01000671
6staff · FY2023
55years trading
67oldest owner on file
£0kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£344kfor 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
Staff6
20218 → 62023
Cash at bank£0k
2021£0k → £0k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£57,400in the middle half
£10,980£40,603£330,505
Debtor daysdays31in the middle half
1035122
Creditor daysdays12
925113
Stock daysdays97in the top quarter
516138
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 5
- 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.
- Everyone on the board is over 60There is no one on the register a buyer can see taking the business on. That is a discount if it stays that way and a negotiating point if it changes.
- Headcount fell from 7 to 6A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 97 against 16 for the middle of 66 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
- 55 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
- 67since 2016
Directors
- 67since 1999
- since 2001
- 63since 2019
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £344k | 6 | £0k |
| 2022-12-31 | not filed | 7 | £0k |
| 2021-12-31 | not filed | 8 | £0k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£140k£310k
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.