What a buyer sees
WEST LANCASHIRE GROUP LTD
Electrical installation · Poulton-Le-Fylde · 08132710
56staff · FY2023
14years trading
56oldest owner on file
£833kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£23Mfor 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
Staff56
202151 → 562023
Cash at bank£833k
2021£763k → £833k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£406,807in the top quarter
£102,858£198,982£467,730
Debtor daysdays12below almost all
184694
Creditor daysdays26
214071
Stock daysdays31in the middle half
52349
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 32 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
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 406,807 against 198,982 for the middle of 110 comparable companies.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 12 against 46 for the middle of 94 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 56since 2016
Directors
- 56since 2012
- 62since 2016
- 45since 2019
- 39since 2023
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £23M | 56 | £833k |
| 2022-06-30 | not filed | 59 | £1.0M |
| 2021-06-30 | not filed | 51 | £763k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.7× sales£9.1M£16M
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.