What a buyer sees
CARMEL CLOTHING LIMITED
Manufacture of soft furnishings · London · 03613529
159staff · FY2025
28years trading
—oldest owner on file
£642kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£35Mfor the year to 2025
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
Staff159
2021156 → 1592025
Cash at bank£642k
2021£1.2M → £642k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£221,559in the middle half
£88,871£162,513£362,127
Debtor daysdays65in the middle half
265687
Creditor daysdays129
143363
Stock daysdays133above almost all
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
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 133 against 45 for the middle of 2,028 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
- 28 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
- 55since 1998
- since 1998
- 56since 2007
- 44since 2014
- 57since 2017
- 50since 2019
- 73since 2024
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 2026-08-08 | £35M | 159 | £642k |
| 2022-12-31 | — | not filed | 0 | — |
| 2021-12-31 | — | £54M | 156 | £1.2M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£14M£32M
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.