What a buyer sees
BROWN ELM LIMITED
Non-specialised wholesale trade · Hainault · 11883592
17staff · FY2024
7years trading
49oldest owner on file
£298kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£6.0Mfor 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
Staff17
202212 → 172024
Cash at bank£298k
2022£201k → £298k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£352,277in the middle half
£165,955£424,674£1,097,429
Debtor daysdays46in the middle half
225791
Creditor daysdays6
92661
Stock daysdays67in the middle half
2262151
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 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.
- 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
- Headcount grew from 14 to 17Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
What the register says
Owners
- 49since 2019
Directors
- since 2019
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £6.0M | 17 | £298k |
| 2023-03-31 | £4.1M | 14 | £351k |
| 2022-03-31 | £3.0M | 12 | £201k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£2.1M£3.3M
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.