What a buyer sees
BARLEY CHALU LIMITED
Treatment and coating of metals · Norfolk · 00923921
66staff · FY2021
59years trading
—oldest owner on file
£134kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£6.2Mfor the year to 2021
Unusual at this size, and it works in your favour: a buyer is reading your number rather than guessing at one.
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£94,041in the bottom quarter
£88,871£162,513£362,127
Debtor daysdays65in the middle half
265687
Creditor daysdays20
143363
Stock daysdays12in the bottom quarter
1245115
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 56 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 2
- 59 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 12 against 45 for the middle of 2,028 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 61since 2007
- 45since 2007
- 62since 2020
- 29since 2024
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-12-31 | £6.2M | 66 | £134k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£2.5M£5.6M
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.