What a buyer sees
SANITA UK LIMITED
Wholesale of other intermediate products · Telford · 03760771
17staff · FY2023
27years trading
49oldest owner on file
£3.9Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£68Mfor 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
Staff17
202117 → 172023
Cash at bank£3.9M
2021£1.4M → £3.9M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£4,005,929above almost all
£203,282£375,200£883,733
Debtor daysdays58in the middle half
416087
Creditor daysdays2
92068
Stock daysdays3below almost all
1763131
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.
- 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 3
- 27 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 4,005,929 against 375,200 for the middle of 55 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 3 against 63 for the middle of 49 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 49since 2016
Directors
- 82since 2008
- since 2014
- since 2021
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £68M | 17 | £3.9M |
| 2022-12-31 | £78M | 18 | £3.9M |
| 2021-12-31 | £55M | 17 | £1.4M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£24M£37M
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.