What a buyer sees
SAFELINCS LIMITED
Manufacture of other fabricated metal products n.e.c. · Alford · 04715788
81staff · FY2024
23years trading
—oldest owner on file
£808kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£24Mfor 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
Staff81
202278 → 812024
Cash at bank£808k
2022£2.4M → £808k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£296,451above almost all
£86,854£141,664£294,750
Debtor daysdays20below almost all
325886
Creditor daysdays31
153455
Stock daysdays39in the middle half
1350112
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 29 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 3
- 23 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 296,451 against 141,664 for the middle of 135 comparable companies.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 20 against 58 for the middle of 131 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 40since 2023
- since 2023
- 52since 2025
- 48since 2025
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £24M | 81 | £808k |
| 2023-03-31 | £24M | 79 | £1.9M |
| 2022-03-31 | £25M | 78 | £2.4M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£9.6M£22M
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.