What a buyer sees
BUTCHER AND BARLOW LLP
Bury · OC343502
133staff · FY2024
17years trading
56oldest owner on file
£1.7Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£9.9Mfor 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
Staff133
2022118 → 1332024
Cash at bank£1.7M
2022£1.1M → £1.7M2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£74,344in the middle half
£19,100£114,401£651,101
Debtor daysdays53in the middle half
1245110
Creditor daysdays14
102888
Stock daysdays3below almost all
738149
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 29 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Headcount fell from 170 to 133A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- 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
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 3 against 38 for the middle of 14,704 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 54since 2022
- 56since 2016
- 50since 2016
- 44since 2016
Directors
- 56since 2009
- 50since 2009
- 54since 2010
- 66since 2010
- 44since 2010
- 48since 2010
- 47since 2010
- 50since 2010
- 72since 2012
- 52since 2013
- 56since 2013
- 71since 2014
- 42since 2014
- 41since 2016
- 43since 2016
- 49since 2017
- 39since 2018
- 40since 2018
- 37since 2018
- 40since 2018
- 49since 2019
- 39since 2019
- 52since 2021
- 40since 2021
- 54since 2022
- 55since 2023
- 38since 2024
- 56since 2024
- 40since 2025
- 48since 2025
- 42since 2026
- 33since 2026
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £9.9M | 133 | £1.7M |
| 2023-04-30 | not filed | 170 | £1.8M |
| 2022-04-30 | not filed | 118 | £1.1M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£4.0M£8.9M
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.