What a buyer sees
CROWN INTERIORS LIMITED
Other business support service activities n.e.c. · Reading · 04613312
10staff · FY2023
24years trading
—oldest owner on file
£2.4Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£5.8Mfor 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
Staff10
202110 → 102023
Cash at bank£2.4M
2021£1.7M → £2.4M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£582,720in the top quarter
£41,286£229,589£1,187,347
Debtor daysdays18in the bottom quarter
1451109
Creditor daysdays17
92679
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
744146
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.
- Everyone on the board is over 60There is no one on the register a buyer can see taking the business on. That is a discount if it stays that way and a negotiating point if it changes.
- 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 5
- 24 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 9 to 10Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 582,720 against 229,589 for the middle of 374 comparable companies.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 18 against 51 for the middle of 254 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
- since 2002
- 74since 2007
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-30 | £5.8M | 10 | £2.4M |
| 2022-09-30 | not filed | 9 | £2.5M |
| 2021-09-30 | not filed | 10 | £1.7M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£2.3M£5.2M
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.