What a buyer sees
DARKE & TAYLOR LIMITED
Electrical installation · Witney · 00999233
233staff · FY2023
55years trading
—oldest owner on file
£970kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£33Mfor 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
Staff233
2021220 → 2332023
Cash at bank£970k
2021£924k → £970k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£141,258in the bottom quarter
£102,858£198,982£467,730
Debtor daysdays0below almost all
184694
Creditor daysdays21
214071
Stock daysdays0below almost all
52349
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 3
- 55 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 0 against 46 for the middle of 94 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 0 against 23 for the middle of 37 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 54since 2006
- 54since 2007
- 46since 2023
- 57since 2023
- 54since 2023
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £33M | 233 | £970k |
| 2022-12-31 | £31M | 217 | £638k |
| 2021-12-31 | £21M | 220 | £924k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.7× sales£13M£23M
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.