What a buyer sees
JK POWELL LIMITED
Manufacture of light metal packaging · Nottingham · 03690043
44staff · FY2023
28years trading
56oldest owner on file
£649kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£12Mfor 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
Staff44
202144 → 442023
Cash at bank£649k
2021£959k → £649k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£268,125in the middle half
£75,818£268,200£906,093
Debtor daysdays34in the bottom quarter
225592
Creditor daysdays62
113064
Stock daysdays60in the middle half
1049126
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 32 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- 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
- 28 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 34 against 55 for the middle of 905 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 56since 2016
- 56since 2016
Directors
- 56since 1998
- 56since 2006
- 29since 2024
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £12M | 44 | £649k |
| 2022-12-31 | not filed | 47 | £656k |
| 2021-12-31 | not filed | 44 | £959k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£4.7M£11M
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.