What a buyer sees
INDUSTRIAL TOOL SUPPLIES (LONDON) LIMITED
Agents involved in the sale of machinery, industrial equipment, ships and aircraft · Harlow · 01445952
137staff · FY2023
47years trading
51oldest owner on file
£6.1Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£62Mfor 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
Staff137
2021118 → 1372023
Cash at bank£6.1M
2021£4.7M → £6.1M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£450,080in the middle half
£120,356£411,811£1,328,702
Debtor daysdays1below almost all
174589
Creditor daysdays16
933124
Stock daysdays103in the middle half
1760177
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 3
- 47 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 1 against 45 for the middle of 56 comparable companies.
- A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.
What the register says
Owners
- 51since 2023
Directors
- 75since 2000
- 51since 2000
- 44since 2010
- 77
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £62M | 137 | £6.1M |
| 2022-12-31 | £66M | 130 | £6.4M |
| 2021-08-31 | £64M | 118 | £4.7M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£22M£34M
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.