What a buyer sees
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Retail sale in non-specialised stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating · Cadishead · 11861482
9staff · FY2023
7years trading
—oldest owner on file
£4kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£85kfor 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
Staff9
20228 → 92023
Cash at bank£4k
2022£4k → £4k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£9,456below almost all
£24,473£98,367£213,397
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
1042130
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
91852
Stock daysdays34in the middle half
112878
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.
- Everyone on the board is over 60There is no one on the register a buyer can see taking the business on. That is a discount if it stays that way and a negotiating point if it changes.
- 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
- Headcount grew from 8 to 9Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 81since 2019
- 88since 2019
- 69since 2019
- 82since 2019
- 86since 2019
- 75since 2019
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £85k | 9 | £4k |
| 2022-12-31 | £83k | 8 | £4k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.25–0.5× sales£20k£40k
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.