What a buyer sees
ARBORDEM LIMITED
Other retail sale in non-specialised stores · Kingsbridge · 01659036
7staff · FY2024
44years trading
61oldest owner on file
£470kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£610kfor 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
Staff7
20227 → 72024
Cash at bank£470k
2022£653k → £470k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£87,114in the middle half
£12,743£42,800£180,348
Debtor daysdays6below almost all
82777
Creditor daysdays12
922138
Stock daysdays324above almost all
1264245
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 4
- 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.
- Everyone on the board is over 60There is no one on the register a buyer can see taking the business on. That is a discount if it stays that way and a negotiating point if it changes.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 324 against 64 for the middle of 77 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 3
- 44 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 6 against 27 for the middle of 76 comparable companies.
- A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.
What the register says
Owners
- 61since 2016
- 60since 2016
Directors
- 60since 1996
- 61since 1999
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £610k | 7 | £470k |
| 2023-03-31 | not filed | 7 | £563k |
| 2022-03-31 | not filed | 7 | £653k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.25–0.5× sales£150k£300k
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.