What a buyer sees
HOME DISCOUNT LIMITED
Retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet · Bradford · 07640835
31staff · FY2025
15years trading
49oldest owner on file
£1.9Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£25Mfor the year to 2025
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
Staff31
202146 → 312025
Cash at bank£1.9M
2021£2.7M → £1.9M2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£805,187in the top quarter
£70,666£281,221£926,979
Debtor daysdays24in the middle half
82254
Creditor daysdays5
122973
Stock daysdays0below almost all
2870118
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 2
- Headcount fell from 38 to 31A 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 2
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 805,187 against 281,221 for the middle of 60 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 0 against 70 for the middle of 46 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 49since 2016
- 48since 2016
Directors
- 49since 2011
- 48since 2011
- 49since 2018
- 47since 2018
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-31 | 2026-06-30 | £25M | 31 | £1.9M |
| 2023-10-31 | — | £16M | 38 | £3.2M |
| 2022-10-31 | — | £13M | 43 | £2.3M |
| 2021-10-31 | — | £17M | 46 | £2.7M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.25–0.5× sales£6.2M£12M
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.