What a buyer sees
MERSEY REWINDS LIMITED
Manufacture of metal structures and parts of structures · Merseyside · 01440274
67staff · FY2023
47years trading
78oldest owner on file
£703kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£6.8Mfor 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
Staff67
202181 → 672023
Cash at bank£703k
2021£678k → £703k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£101,594below almost all
£102,718£170,458£318,709
Debtor daysdays78in the top quarter
276084
Creditor daysdays29
184368
Stock daysdays23in the middle half
73199
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 37 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 75 to 67A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 78 against 60 for the middle of 74 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
- 47 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
- 78since 2016
- 77since 2016
Directors
- 78
- 72
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-07-31 | £6.8M | 67 | £703k |
| 2022-07-31 | £7.0M | 75 | £651k |
| 2021-07-31 | £7.3M | 81 | £678k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£2.7M£6.1M
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.