What a buyer sees
TARHOUSE MANAGEMENT LIMITED
Other letting and operating of own or leased real estate · London · 01290055
5staff · FY2023
50years trading
70oldest owner on file
£1.0Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£2.2Mfor 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
Staff5
20215,000 → 52023
Cash at bank£1.0M
2021£28k → £1.0M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£440,100in the top quarter
£11,787£65,350£715,843
Debtor daysdays301above almost all
1140185
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
1033210
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
1285814
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 35 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Headcount fell from 5000 to 5A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 301 against 40 for the middle of 456 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
- 50 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 440,100 against 65,350 for the middle of 249 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 70since 2016
Directors
- 64since 2000
- 59since 2000
- since 2007
- 52since 2018
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-30 | £2.2M | 5 | £1.0M |
| 2022-09-30 | £2.2M | 5000 | £1.1M |
| 2021-09-30 | £1.6M | 5000 | £28k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
3–8× sales£6.6M£18M
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.