What a buyer sees
IHH-VAC LIMITED
Manufacture of other special-purpose machinery n.e.c. · Bridgwater · 03227745
11staff · FY2025
30years trading
60oldest owner on file
£534kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£1.9Mfor the year to 2025
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
Staff11
202118 → 112025
Cash at bank£534k
2021£276k → £534k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£173,664in the middle half
£86,387£161,407£453,678
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
2255106
Creditor daysdays26
132560
Stock daysdays122in the top quarter
2472158
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
- 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.
- Headcount fell from 17 to 11A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 122 against 72 for the middle of 88 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
- 30 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
- 60since 2018
Directors
- 60since 2018
- 61since 2024
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-30 | 2026-08-26 | £1.9M | 11 | £534k |
| 2023-11-30 | — | £2.7M | 17 | £138k |
| 2022-11-30 | — | £2.0M | 17 | £196k |
| 2021-11-30 | — | £2.3M | 18 | £276k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£760k£1.7M
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.