What a buyer sees
FAIRLIGHT VEHICLES LIMITED
Other service activities n.e.c. · Leigh-On-Sea · 04636984
10staff · FY2024
23years trading
82oldest owner on file
£25kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£1.3Mfor 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
Staff10
20227 → 102024
Cash at bank£25k
2022£41k → £25k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£131,580in the middle half
£29,383£100,320£558,377
Debtor daysdays24in the middle half
113377
Creditor daysdays3
103361
Stock daysdays29in the top quarter
71498
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 3
- The newest accounts on file are 30 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 29 against 14 for the middle of 113 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
- 23 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 9 to 10Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
What the register says
Owners
- 57since 2021
- 82since 2016
Directors
- 57since 2003
- since 2003
- 35since 2021
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-02-29 | £1.3M | 10 | £25k |
| 2023-02-28 | not filed | 9 | £25k |
| 2022-02-28 | not filed | 7 | £41k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£530k£1.2M
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.