What a buyer sees
THE COLBERT RESTAURANT LIMITED
Licensed restaurants · London · 07845023
101staff · FY2023
15years trading
—oldest owner on file
£159kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£8.5Mfor 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
Staff101
202192 → 1012023
Cash at bank£159k
2021£390k → £159k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£83,993in the top quarter
£33,428£64,574£86,748
Debtor daysdays7in the bottom quarter
61079
Creditor daysdays18
112244
Stock daysdays6in the middle half
5817
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 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.
- 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
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 83,993 against 64,574 for the middle of 67 comparable companies.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 7 against 10 for the middle of 64 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 61since 2022
- 77since 2022
- 44since 2022
- since 2023
- 59since 2026
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £8.5M | 101 | £159k |
| 2022-12-31 | £7.6M | 101 | £206k |
| 2021-12-31 | £4.8M | 92 | £390k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£3.4M£7.6M
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.