What a buyer sees
CAICE ACOUSTIC AIR MOVEMENT LTD.
Construction of commercial buildings · Winnersh · 02790667
147staff · FY2024
33years trading
—oldest owner on file
£310kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£16Mfor 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
Staff147
2022137 → 1472024
Cash at bank£310k
2022£414k → £310k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£108,445below almost all
£151,371£336,133£959,123
Debtor daysdays71in the top quarter
123474
Creditor daysdays43
183880
Stock daysdays24in the middle half
525634
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 30 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 71 against 34 for the middle of 106 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
- 33 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
- 65since 1993
- 69since 1993
- 64since 2001
- 47since 2012
- 50since 2018
- 48since 2018
- 57since 2020
- 44since 2023
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-02-29 | £16M | 147 | £310k |
| 2023-02-28 | £15M | 149 | £226k |
| 2022-02-28 | £15M | 137 | £414k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.2–0.45× sales£3.2M£7.2M
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.