What a buyer sees
RALAWISE LIMITED
Wholesale of textiles · Deeside · 01362849
549staff · FY2023
48years trading
—oldest owner on file
£7.2Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£169Mfor 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
Staff549
2021540 → 5492023
Cash at bank£7.2M
2021£8.3M → £7.2M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£307,134in the middle half
£104,681£344,882£1,047,246
Debtor daysdays44in the middle half
2850110
Creditor daysdays16
153287
Stock daysdays150in the top quarter
2381213
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.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 150 against 81 for the middle of 36 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 1
- 48 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 52since 2016
- 64since 2019
- 62
- 62
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £169M | 549 | £7.2M |
| 2021-12-31 | not filed | 540 | £8.3M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£59M£93M
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.