What a buyer sees
MCADAM DESIGN LIMITED
Other engineering activities · 478 Castlereagh Road · NI013516
148staff · FY2023
47years trading
—oldest owner on file
£1.8Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£22Mfor 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
Staff148
2021118 → 1482023
Cash at bank£1.8M
2021£2.3M → £1.8M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£148,733in the middle half
£83,551£148,733£303,689
Debtor daysdays57in the middle half
206799
Creditor daysdays34
122470
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
63197
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 2
- 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.
- 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
- 47 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
- 61since 2000
- since 2012
- 59since 2019
- 51since 2020
- 51since 2020
- 49since 2023
- 40since 2025
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £22M | 148 | £1.8M |
| 2022-12-31 | £18M | 135 | £1.3M |
| 2021-12-31 | £15M | 118 | £2.3M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.6–1.5× sales£13M£33M
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.