What a buyer sees
CLASSIC FOOTBALL COMPANY LIMITED
Retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet · Hyde · 05843042
194staff · FY2025
20years trading
75oldest owner on file
£8.6Mcash at bank
Nobody can see what you turn over
9.8× spread£12M£117M
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 57 companies in the same trade and size. An opening offer is built on the bottom of it.
What your filings show moving
Staff194
202191 → 1942025
Cash at bank£8.6M
2021£1.5M → £8.6M2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employeenot on your filings
£134,596£237,777£572,902
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
820106
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
142558
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
1951115
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 £12M and £117M. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
- The last accounts went in 11 months after year endThe allowance is nine. A buyer reads a late filing as a question about the finance function rather than about the trading.
- 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
- 20 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 131 to 194Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
What the register says
Owners
- 50since 2024
- 51since 2024
- 75since 2024
Directors
- 41since 2006
- 41since 2006
- 54since 2024
- 34since 2024
- 52since 2024
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-30 | 2026-06-25 | not filed | 194 | £8.6M |
| 2023-06-30 | — | £24M | 131 | £2.3M |
| 2022-06-30 | — | £19M | 115 | £2.0M |
| 2021-06-30 | — | £18M | 91 | £1.5M |