What a buyer sees
TPBI UK LIMITED
Manufacture of corrugated paper and paperboard, sacks and bags · Newcastle Under Lyme · 04352675
81staff · FY2023
24years trading
—oldest owner on file
£516kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£18Mfor 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
Staff81
202190 → 812023
Cash at bank£516k
2021£580k → £516k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£221,598in the middle half
£88,871£162,513£362,127
Debtor daysdays53in the middle half
265687
Creditor daysdays29
143363
Stock daysdays33in the middle half
1245115
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 3
- 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.
- Headcount fell from 105 to 81A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- 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
- 24 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 2011
- 45since 2018
- 40since 2018
- 43since 2018
- 41since 2018
- 72since 2018
- 50since 2018
- 65since 2022
- 47since 2025
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £18M | 81 | £516k |
| 2022-12-31 | £18M | 105 | £825k |
| 2021-12-31 | £15M | 90 | £580k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£7.2M£16M
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.