What a buyer sees
BYROM PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
Activities of head offices · Cheshire · 02630764
141staff · FY2023
35years trading
—oldest owner on file
£37Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£1.8Mfor 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
Staff141
2022154 → 1412023
Cash at bank£37M
2022£19M → £37M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£12,969below almost all
£57,344£130,826£323,155
Debtor daysdays588above almost all
2061109
Creditor daysdays551
82162
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
730102
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.
- 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.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 588 against 61 for the middle of 479 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 1
- 35 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 73since 1991
- 60since 1997
- 68since 2024
- since 2024
- 69since 2025
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £1.8M | 141 | £37M |
| 2022-12-31 | £28M | 154 | £19M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.8–2× sales£1.5M£3.7M
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.