What a buyer sees
SMARTSOURCING LIMITED
Temporary employment agency activities · South Benfleet · 04359421
27staff · FY2023
24years trading
—oldest owner on file
£160kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£24Mfor 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
Staff27
202126 → 272023
Cash at bank£160k
2021£1.2M → £160k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£891,867above almost all
£12,863£365,915£891,661
Debtor daysdays40in the middle half
255073
Creditor daysdays26
81745
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
637138
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 2
- 24 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 891,867 against 365,915 for the middle of 82 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- since 2002
- 78since 2002
- 61since 2002
- 51since 2021
- 57since 2021
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £24M | 27 | £160k |
| 2022-12-31 | £25M | 28 | £64k |
| 2021-12-31 | £30M | 26 | £1.2M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.15–0.3× sales£3.6M£7.2M
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.