What a buyer sees
JESTIC LIMITED
Agents specialized in the sale of other particular products · Paddock Wood · 05411260
120staff · FY2023
21years trading
—oldest owner on file
£40kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£26Mfor 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
Staff120
2022111 → 1202023
Cash at bank£40k
2022£82k → £40k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£217,534in the middle half
£76,518£314,975£863,367
Debtor daysdays59in the middle half
2255105
Creditor daysdays19
831102
Stock daysdays88in the middle half
1253123
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 2
- 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.
- 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
- 21 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
- since 2005
- 52since 2007
- 55since 2011
- 48since 2018
- 54since 2018
- 56since 2019
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £26M | 120 | £40k |
| 2022-12-31 | not filed | 111 | £82k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£9.1M£14M
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.