What a buyer sees
NORTH & WESTERN LANCASHIRE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Activities of other membership organizations n.e.c. · Preston · 00145454
15staff · FY2023
110years trading
—oldest owner on file
£1.3Mcash at bank
Nobody can see what you turn over
11.6× spread£276k£3.2M
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: 3 figures against 58 companies in the same trade. An opening offer is built on the bottom of it.
What your filings show moving
Staff15
202118 → 152023
Cash at bank£1.3M
2021£1.1M → £1.3M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employeenot on your filings
£13,305£44,875£250,941
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
1042161
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
92494
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
71499
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 5
- 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 £276k and £3.2M. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
- 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.
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- Headcount fell from 18 to 15A 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
- 110 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
- 79since 1995
- 72since 1998
- 71since 2001
- 59since 2010
- 81since 2010
- 63since 2011
- 70since 2016
- 63since 2016
- 65since 2017
- since 2017
- 71since 2019
- 43since 2026
- 36since 2026
- 63since 2026
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | not filed | 15 | £1.3M |
| 2022-12-31 | not filed | 18 | £1.0M |
| 2021-12-31 | not filed | 18 | £1.1M |