What a buyer sees
YORK PRESS LIMITED
Book publishing · London · 01216289
8staff · FY2023
51years trading
61oldest owner on file
£407kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£3.2Mfor 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
Staff8
20218 → 82023
Cash at bank£407k
2021£219k → £407k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£399,938in the top quarter
£14,762£136,270£435,530
Debtor daysdays84in the top quarter
1361113
Creditor daysdays40
929100
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
1660345
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.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 84 against 61 for the middle of 39 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 2
- 51 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 399,938 against 136,270 for the middle of 47 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 61since 2016
Directors
- 61since 1998
- 60since 1998
- 25since 2022
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £3.2M | 8 | £407k |
| 2022-12-31 | £4.4M | 8 | £276k |
| 2021-12-31 | £16M | 8 | £219k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£1.3M£2.9M
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.