What a buyer sees
CRITIQOM LIMITED
Manufacture of paper stationery · Strathclyde Business Park · SC160484
49staff · FY2024
31years trading
—oldest owner on file
£712kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£21Mfor the year to 2024
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
Staff49
202249 → 492024
Cash at bank£712k
2022£1.1M → £712k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£437,714in the middle half
£75,818£268,200£906,093
Debtor daysdays92in the top quarter
225592
Creditor daysdays59
113064
Stock daysdays1below almost all
1049126
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 29 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 92 against 55 for the middle of 905 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
- 31 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 1 against 48 for the middle of 890 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 58since 2019
- 38since 2024
- 37since 2024
- 50since 2024
- 58since 2025
- 57since 2025
- since 2025
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £21M | 49 | £712k |
| 2022-03-31 | £17M | 49 | £1.1M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£8.6M£19M
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.