What a buyer sees
LARSON-JUHL UK LIMITED
Wholesale of other intermediate products · Kempston · 01196875
46staff · FY2023
51years trading
53oldest owner on file
£1.8Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£16Mfor 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
Staff46
202255 → 462023
Cash at bank£1.8M
2022£388k → £1.8M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£340,391in the middle half
£203,282£375,200£883,733
Debtor daysdays53in the middle half
416087
Creditor daysdays18
92068
Stock daysdays94in the middle half
1763131
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 32 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- Headcount fell from 55 to 46A 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 1
- 51 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
- 53since 2026
Directors
- 68since 2003
- since 2005
- 67since 2020
- 53since 2026
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £16M | 46 | £1.8M |
| 2022-01-02 | £15M | 55 | £388k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£5.5M£8.6M
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.