What a buyer sees
QUALTEX UK LIMITED
Wholesale of household goods (other than musical instruments) n.e.c. · Manchester · 00708974
51staff · FY2025
65years trading
—oldest owner on file
£214kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£24Mfor the year to 2025
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
Staff51
202169 → 512025
Cash at bank£214k
2021£545k → £214k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£461,647in the top quarter
£179,345£328,550£565,072
Debtor daysdays20below almost all
225072
Creditor daysdays15
111947
Stock daysdays99in the middle half
3774132
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
- 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.
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- Headcount fell from 61 to 51A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- 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 4
- 65 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 461,647 against 328,550 for the middle of 43 comparable companies.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 20 against 50 for the middle of 41 comparable companies.
- A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 61since 2008
- 61since 2014
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 2026-08-25 | £24M | 51 | £214k |
| 2023-12-31 | — | £26M | 61 | £410k |
| 2022-12-31 | — | £24M | 63 | £587k |
| 2021-12-31 | — | £25M | 69 | £545k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£8.2M£13M
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.