What a buyer sees
GRATTE BROTHERS CATERING EQUIPMENT LIMITED
Electrical installation · London · 01832773
65staff · FY2022
42years trading
—oldest owner on file
£135kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£7.2Mfor the year to 2022
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£111,289in the bottom quarter
£102,858£198,982£467,730
Debtor daysdays93in the top quarter
184694
Creditor daysdays19
214071
Stock daysdays36in the top quarter
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 3
- The newest accounts on file are 53 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 93 against 46 for the middle of 94 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
- 42 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
- 57since 2017
- since 2019
- 59since 2022
- 45since 2022
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-03-31 | £7.2M | 65 | £135k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.7× sales£2.9M£5.1M
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.