What a buyer sees
THAMESIDE FIRE PROTECTION CO. LIMITED
Other business support service activities n.e.c. · Essex · 03453185
81staff · FY2023
29years trading
72oldest owner on file
£1.2Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£17Mfor 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
Staff81
2021105 → 812023
Cash at bank£1.2M
2021£2.8M → £1.2M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£208,567in the middle half
£45,518£151,784£486,559
Debtor daysdays26in the bottom quarter
1447102
Creditor daysdays43
92769
Stock daysdays34in the middle half
62889
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 34 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Headcount fell from 95 to 81A 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 2
- 29 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 26 against 47 for the middle of 279 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 72since 2016
Directors
- since 1997
- 72since 1997
- 61since 1997
- 60since 1997
- 56since 2006
- 50since 2010
- 45since 2013
- 57since 2017
- 57since 2018
- 48since 2024
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-10-31 | £17M | 81 | £1.2M |
| 2022-10-31 | £20M | 95 | £908k |
| 2021-10-31 | £12M | 105 | £2.8M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£6.8M£15M
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.