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What a buyer sees

ITALIAN BEAR CHOCOLATE LIMITED

Retail sale of bread, cakes, flour confectionery and sugar confectionery in specialised stores · London · 08308535

44staff · FY2025
14years trading
60oldest owner on file
£451kcash at bank

Nobody can see what you turn over

8.3× spread
£165k
£1.4M

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: 4 figures against 1,452 companies in the same sector and size. An opening offer is built on the bottom of it.

What your filings show moving

Staff44
202125 → 442025
Cash at bank£451k
2021£342k → £451k2025

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employeenot on your filings
£16,099£43,407£164,750
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
154790
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
102974
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
1150141

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 £165k and £1.4M. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
  • Headcount fell from 49 to 44A 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 0

Nothing stands out yet from the filings alone.

What the register says

Owners

  • 59since 2016
  • 60since 2025

Directors

  • 59since 2012
  • 60since 2025
Accounts on public record
Year toFiledTurnoverStaffCash
2025-12-312026-08-18not filed44£451k
2023-12-31—not filed49£396k
2022-12-31—£1.6M42£265k
2021-12-31—not filed25£342k

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.

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