What a buyer sees
SLG BRANDS LIMITED
Wholesale of perfume and cosmetics · Cheltenham · 01911296
112staff · FY2023
41years trading
—oldest owner on file
£1.4Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£30Mfor 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
Staff112
2021116 → 1122023
Cash at bank£1.4M
2021£5k → £1.4M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£270,546in the middle half
£65,917£414,959£1,221,015
Debtor daysdays61in the middle half
1345100
Creditor daysdays16
112576
Stock daysdays22in the bottom quarter
1994179
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 32 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
- 41 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 22 against 94 for the middle of 52 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
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 60since 2015
- 63since 2015
- 52since 2015
- 49since 2015
- 46since 2016
- 59
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £30M | 112 | £1.4M |
| 2021-12-31 | £26M | 116 | £5k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£11M£17M
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.