What a buyer sees
GEORGE UTZ LIMITED
Manufacture of plastic packing goods · Alfreton · 02352523
101staff · FY2023
37years trading
—oldest owner on file
£3.0Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£19Mfor 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
Staff101
202290 → 1012023
Cash at bank£3.0M
2022£4.8M → £3.0M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£188,010in the middle half
£88,448£217,561£692,965
Debtor daysdays26below almost all
276194
Creditor daysdays22
134679
Stock daysdays65in the top quarter
1836100
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.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 65 against 36 for the middle of 33 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 3
- 37 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 90 to 101Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 26 against 61 for the middle of 32 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- since 2007
- 55since 2024
- 55since 2025
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £19M | 101 | £3.0M |
| 2022-12-31 | £36M | 90 | £4.8M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£7.6M£17M
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.