What a buyer sees
WALTER TIPPER,LIMITED
Agents involved in the sale of timber and building materials · Lichfield · 00425545
263staff · FY2023
80years trading
81oldest owner on file
£2.9Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£55Mfor 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
Staff263
2022267 → 2632023
Cash at bank£2.9M
2022£1.2M → £2.9M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£210,297in the middle half
£146,892£285,967£856,934
Debtor daysdays29in the bottom quarter
234783
Creditor daysdays24
193862
Stock daysdays62in the top quarter
254174
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.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 62 against 41 for the middle of 107 comparable companies. That gap is working capital a buyer has to fund on day one, and it comes off the price.
- 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
- 80 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 29 against 47 for the middle of 113 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
- 81since 2016
- 73since 2016
- 44since 2025
- 46since 2025
Directors
- 69since 2003
- 46since 2008
- since 2009
- 50since 2010
- 44since 2010
- 81
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £55M | 263 | £2.9M |
| 2022-12-31 | £56M | 267 | £1.2M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£19M£30M
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.