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What a buyer sees

ALLIED HYGIENE SYSTEMS LIMITED

Manufacture of household and sanitary goods and of toilet requisites · Erith · 02565067

63staff · FY2023
36years trading
72oldest owner on file
£2.1Mcash at bank

Your turnover is on public record

filed
£18Mfor 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.

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employee£291,811in the top quarter
£291,811
£88,871£162,513£362,127
Debtor daysdays69in the middle half
69
265687
Creditor daysdays44
44
143363
Stock daysdays57in the middle half
57
1245115

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

  • The newest accounts on file are 34 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.
  • 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 3

  • 36 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
  • Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 291,811 against 162,513 for the middle of 2,152 comparable companies.
  • A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.

What the register says

Owners

  • 72since 2016
  • 67since 2016

Directors

  • 67since 1992
  • 63since 2013
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2023-10-31£18M63£2.1M

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.4–0.9× sales
£7.3M
£17M

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.

Prepared by Qapital from public records, against 105,750 companies that did publish a turnover. No figure here was supplied by the company and none of it is advice. What it is missing is everything that actually sets a price: profitability, contracts, customer concentration, and whoever would run it next.

Tell us the rest

Your turnover is on file, but the things that set a price are not: margin, customer concentration, who would run it next. Tell us where you are and we will read it properly.

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