What a buyer sees
CHILLISAUCE LIMITED
Travel agency activities · Richmond · 04002664
41staff · FY2023
26years trading
—oldest owner on file
£525kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£8.8Mfor 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
Staff41
202138 → 412023
Cash at bank£525k
2021£702k → £525k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£213,493in the bottom quarter
£95,552£505,098£1,758,566
Debtor daysdays2below almost all
839185
Creditor daysdays1
1140256
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 2
- 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.
- 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
- 26 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 2 against 39 for the middle of 65 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
- 55since 2000
- 56since 2000
- 54since 2011
- 55since 2012
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-30 | £8.8M | 41 | £525k |
| 2022-09-30 | £14M | 43 | £854k |
| 2021-09-30 | £6.7M | 38 | £702k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£3.5M£7.9M
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.