What a buyer sees
TREASURES (UK) LIMITED
Retail sale of newspapers and stationery in specialised stores · 04527188
1staff · FY2023
24years trading
67oldest owner on file
£21kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£83kfor 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
Staff1
20210 → 12023
Cash at bank£21k
2021£31k → £21k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£83,300in the middle half
£19,007£90,760£837,682
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
1042130
Creditor daysdays11
929126
Stock daysdays124in the top quarter
1051263
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 4
- The newest accounts on file are 33 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- The register shows an owner past retirement age and little elseWithout directors on file, a buyer cannot tell who actually runs the business day to day.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 124 against 51 for the middle of 1,694 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 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
- 67since 2016
Directors
No current directors loaded.
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-11-30 | £83k | 1 | £21k |
| 2022-11-30 | £91k | 1 | £36k |
| 2021-11-30 | £73k | 0 | £31k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.25–0.5× sales£20k£40k
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.