What a buyer sees
BEAUTY STAR LIMITED
Wholesale of perfume and cosmetics · Wembley · 03047082
4staff · FY2024
31years trading
72oldest owner on file
£8.5Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£21Mfor the year to 2024
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
Staff4
20227 → 42024
Cash at bank£8.5M
2022£6.6M → £8.5M2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£5,257,700above almost all
£65,917£414,959£1,221,015
Debtor daysdays8below almost all
1345100
Creditor daysdays7
112576
Stock daysdays24in the bottom quarter
1994179
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 4
- The newest accounts on file are 30 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- The register shows an owner past retirement age and little elseWithout directors on file, a buyer cannot tell who actually runs the business day to day.
- Headcount fell from 6 to 4A 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 4
- 31 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 5,257,700 against 414,959 for the middle of 45 comparable companies.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 8 against 45 for the middle of 43 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 24 against 94 for the middle of 52 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 72since 2023
- 71since 2016
Directors
No current directors loaded.
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-02-29 | £21M | 4 | £8.5M |
| 2023-02-28 | £19M | 6 | £7.4M |
| 2022-02-28 | £17M | 7 | £6.6M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£7.4M£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.