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What a buyer sees

THE WENTWORTH WOODEN JIGSAW COMPANY LIMITED

Manufacture of other games and toys, n.e.c. · Swindon · 02674441

56staff · FY2023
35years trading
58oldest owner on file
£7.7Mcash at bank

Your turnover is on public record

filed
£11Mfor 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.

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employee£200,525in the middle half
£200,525
£88,871£162,513£362,127
Debtor daysdays0below almost all
0
265687
Creditor daysdays39
39
143363
Stock daysdays24in the bottom quarter
24
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 33 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 3

  • 35 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 0 against 56 for the middle of 2,030 comparable companies.
  • Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 24 against 45 for the middle of 2,028 comparable companies.

What the register says

Owners

  • 58since 2020

Directors

  • 57since 2009
  • 58since 2013
  • 61since 2017
  • 57since 2018
  • 71since 2018
  • 49since 2021
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2023-12-31£11M56£7.7M

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.4–0.9× sales
£4.5M
£10M

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.

Prepared by Qapital from public records, against 105,750 companies that did publish a turnover. No figure here was supplied by the company and none of it is advice. What it is missing is everything that actually sets a price: profitability, contracts, customer concentration, and whoever would run it next.

Tell us the rest

Your turnover is on file, but the things that set a price are not: margin, customer concentration, who would run it next. Tell us where you are and we will read it properly.

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