What a buyer sees
SHILAYAN AUTOMOTIVE UK LIMITED
Manufacture of other parts and accessories for motor vehicles · Burnley · 05628324
12staff · FY2024
21years trading
—oldest owner on file
£311kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£2.3Mfor the year to 2024
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
Staff12
202213 → 122024
Cash at bank£311k
2022£367k → £311k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£195,825in the middle half
£97,296£178,176£397,508
Debtor daysdays80in the top quarter
225592
Creditor daysdays18
173358
Stock daysdays96in the middle half
1845136
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 29 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- One director on the registerA buyer's first question about a company run by one person is what happens to it if that person stops. It is usually the first thing priced.
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 80 against 55 for the middle of 905 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
- 21 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
- 50since 2021
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £2.3M | 12 | £311k |
| 2023-03-31 | £2.5M | 12 | £276k |
| 2022-03-31 | £2.2M | 13 | £367k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£940k£2.1M
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.