What a buyer sees
CITY PRESS SERVICES LIMITED
Public relations and communications activities · Manchester · 01924203
110staff · FY2023
41years trading
—oldest owner on file
£3.6Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£13Mfor 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
Staff110
202189 → 1102023
Cash at bank£3.6M
2021£2.9M → £3.6M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£121,864in the middle half
£14,542£118,385£420,012
Debtor daysdays84in the top quarter
204992
Creditor daysdays6
82162
Stock daysdays0below almost all
730102
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.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 84 against 48 for the middle of 45 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
- 41 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 0 against 30 for the middle of 138 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 52since 1997
- since 2000
- 51since 2006
- 47since 2024
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £13M | 110 | £3.6M |
| 2022-12-31 | not filed | 104 | £3.1M |
| 2021-12-31 | not filed | 89 | £2.9M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.8–2× sales£11M£27M
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.