What a buyer sees
FAR EAST FACADE (UK) LIMITED
Floor and wall covering · Bristol · 06665536
9staff · FY2023
18years trading
—oldest owner on file
£287kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£8.4Mfor 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
Staff9
202115 → 92023
Cash at bank£287k
2021£860k → £287k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£932,744above almost all
£20,160£97,300£728,683
Debtor daysdays104above almost all
92785
Creditor daysdays24
92460
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
839429
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.
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- Headcount fell from 14 to 9A 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 104 against 26 for the middle of 34 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
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 932,744 against 97,300 for the middle of 37 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- since 2014
- 39since 2018
- 66since 2018
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £8.4M | 9 | £287k |
| 2022-12-31 | £8.6M | 14 | £153k |
| 2021-12-31 | £19M | 15 | £860k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.7× sales£3.4M£5.9M
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.