What a buyer sees
WILLERBY LIMITED
Manufacture of caravans · Hull · 00387583
1,089staff · FY2023
82years trading
—oldest owner on file
£13Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£227Mfor 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
Staff1,089
20221,046 → 1,0892023
Cash at bank£13M
2022£38M → £13M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£208,704in the middle half
£79,504£145,354£269,861
Debtor daysdays30in the bottom quarter
234984
Creditor daysdays63
133264
Stock daysdays69in the top quarter
940100
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 35 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 69 against 40 for the middle of 212 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 2
- 82 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 30 against 49 for the middle of 206 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 63since 2016
- 51since 2021
- 55since 2023
- since 2025
- 45since 2025
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-30 | £227M | 1089 | £13M |
| 2022-10-01 | £217M | 1046 | £38M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£91M£205M
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.