What a buyer sees
FLAMBEAU EUROPLAST LTD
Manufacture of other plastic products · Kent · 01216092
62staff · FY2024
51years trading
—oldest owner on file
£1.1Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£9.2Mfor 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
Staff62
202162 → 622024
Cash at bank£1.1M
2021£1.2M → £1.1M2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£147,705in the middle half
£92,437£147,669£271,488
Debtor daysdays67in the middle half
325682
Creditor daysdays45
143154
Stock daysdays69in the top quarter
163978
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 5
- The newest accounts on file are 26 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.
- Headcount fell from 78 to 62A 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 69 against 39 for the middle of 104 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 2
- 51 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 65since 2003
- since 2005
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-06-29 | £9.2M | 62 | £1.1M |
| 2023-06-24 | £8.8M | 78 | £920k |
| 2022-06-25 | £8.7M | 78 | £510k |
| 2021-06-26 | £8.2M | 62 | £1.2M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£3.7M£8.2M
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.