What a buyer sees
JEPSON & CO LIMITED
Other manufacturing n.e.c. · 00112990
63staff · FY2023
116years trading
—oldest owner on file
£1.7Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£11Mfor 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
Staff63
202165 → 632023
Cash at bank£1.7M
2021£6.9M → £1.7M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£175,483in the middle half
£87,990£159,029£330,355
Debtor daysdays88above almost all
215488
Creditor daysdays36
133355
Stock daysdays59in the middle half
1445103
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 4
- The newest accounts on file are 38 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Everyone on the board is over 60There is no one on the register a buyer can see taking the business on. That is a discount if it stays that way and a negotiating point if it changes.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 88 against 54 for the middle of 223 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
- 116 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 60since 2007
- 62since 2008
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-06-30 | £11M | 63 | £1.7M |
| 2022-06-30 | £10M | 66 | £5.9M |
| 2021-06-30 | £11M | 65 | £6.9M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£4.4M£9.9M
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.