What a buyer sees
BROCKWAY CARPETS LIMITED
Manufacture of woven or tufted carpets and rugs · Kidderminster · 00298275
68staff · FY2022
91years trading
—oldest owner on file
£2.6Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£21Mfor the year to 2022
Unusual at this size, and it works in your favour: a buyer is reading your number rather than guessing at one.
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£306,840in the top quarter
£88,871£162,513£362,127
Debtor daysdays46in the middle half
265687
Creditor daysdays35
143363
Stock daysdays71in the middle half
1245115
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 2
- The newest accounts on file are 53 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- 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
- 91 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 306,840 against 162,513 for the middle of 2,152 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 56since 1998
- since 2017
- 58since 2020
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-03-31 | £21M | 68 | £2.6M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£8.3M£19M
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.