What a buyer sees
MEDIA ZOO LIMITED
Publishing of newspapers · London · 04655948
109staff · FY2024
23years trading
—oldest owner on file
£1.4Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£14Mfor the year to 2024
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
Staff109
2022135 → 1092024
Cash at bank£1.4M
2022£4.1M → £1.4M2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£129,373in the middle half
£62,550£154,651£409,877
Debtor daysdays56in the middle half
2054107
Creditor daysdays10
82384
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
62386
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 29 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Headcount fell from 146 to 109A 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
- 23 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
- 68since 2023
- 55since 2023
- 54since 2024
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £14M | 109 | £1.4M |
| 2023-03-31 | £15M | 146 | £1.9M |
| 2022-03-31 | £13M | 135 | £4.1M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£5.6M£13M
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.