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What a buyer sees

BEDFORD & CO LIMITED

Accounting and auditing activities · Devon · 03880908

19staff · FY2025
27years trading
—oldest owner on file
£242kcash at bank

Nobody can see what you turn over

10.8× spread
£267k
£2.9M

You file abbreviated accounts, as almost every company your size does, so the profit and loss account is not on public record. That band is what your balance sheet implies to anyone who looks: 2 figures against 31 companies in the same trade and size. An opening offer is built on the bottom of it.

What your filings show moving

Staff19
202318 → 192025
Cash at bank£242k
2023£245k → £242k2025

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employeenot on your filings
£22,317£46,470£126,300
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
2071226
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
817133
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
734122

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

  • Your turnover is not on fileYou file abbreviated accounts, as most companies your size do, so a buyer cannot see what the business turns over and has to estimate it. Working only from what you filed, the range lands between £267k and £2.9M. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
  • Everyone on the board is over 60There is no one on the register a buyer can see taking the business on. That is a discount if it stays that way and a negotiating point if it changes.
  • 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

  • 27 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
  • A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.

What the register says

Owners

Nobody recorded with significant control.

Directors

  • since 1999
  • 61since 1999
Accounts on public record
Year toFiledTurnoverStaffCash
2025-11-302026-07-23not filed19£242k
2023-11-30—not filed18£245k

Prepared by Qapital from public records, against 105,750 companies that did publish a turnover. No figure here was supplied by the company and none of it is advice. What it is missing is everything that actually sets a price: profitability, contracts, customer concentration, and whoever would run it next.

Close the gap

The range above exists because your turnover is not on public record. Tell us what it actually is and we will place you exactly against your trade, and send it back.

Goes to one inbox. No list, no sequence, and we will not pass it on. We buy companies as well as advise on them, so if yours is one we would be interested in, we will tell you that before anything else happens.