What a buyer sees
NDC POLIPAK LIMITED
Manufacture of plastic packing goods · Sutton Coldfield · 03858503
139staff · FY2023
27years trading
71oldest owner on file
£279kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£28Mfor 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
Staff139
2021146 → 1392023
Cash at bank£279k
2021£994k → £279k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£198,524in the middle half
£88,448£217,561£692,965
Debtor daysdays61in the middle half
276194
Creditor daysdays31
134679
Stock daysdays32in the middle half
1836100
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 32 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Headcount fell from 158 to 139A 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
- 27 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
- 71since 2016
Directors
- 71since 1999
- 58since 1999
- since 2012
- 78since 2013
- 68since 2019
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £28M | 139 | £279k |
| 2022-12-31 | £26M | 158 | £1.2M |
| 2021-12-31 | £25M | 146 | £994k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£11M£25M
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.