What a buyer sees
DANTE SOUTH LTD
Combined facilities support activities · Liverpool · 02605299
7staff · FY2023
35years trading
—oldest owner on file
£160kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£1.7Mfor 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
Staff7
202210 → 72023
Cash at bank£160k
2022£331k → £160k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£249,214in the top quarter
£19,793£66,862£264,082
Debtor daysdays89in the top quarter
2156122
Creditor daysdays75
925114
Stock daysdays17in the middle half
631250
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 41 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Headcount fell from 10 to 7A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 89 against 56 for the middle of 55 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 2
- 35 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 249,214 against 66,862 for the middle of 62 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
No current directors loaded.
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-03-31 | £1.7M | 7 | £160k |
| 2022-03-31 | not filed | 10 | £331k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£700k£1.6M
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.