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What a buyer sees

BELL AND BLAKE LIMITED

Real estate agencies · Chichester · 08570048

9staff · FY2024
13years trading
51oldest owner on file
£41kcash at bank

Nobody can see what you turn over

5.8× spread
£119k
£692k

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: 3 figures against 56 companies in the same trade and size. An opening offer is built on the bottom of it.

What your filings show moving

Staff9
20227 → 92024
Cash at bank£41k
2022£20k → £41k2024

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employeenot on your filings
£17,721£43,133£94,290
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
832317
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
721209
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
16168850

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 £119k and £692k. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
  • The newest accounts on file are 29 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
  • 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 7 to 9Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.

What the register says

Owners

  • 51since 2016
  • 50since 2016
  • 50since 2024
  • 51since 2026

Directors

  • 50since 2013
  • 51since 2013
  • since 2023
  • 50since 2024
  • 51since 2026
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2024-03-31not filed9£41k
2023-03-31not filed7£66k
2022-03-31not filed7£20k

Prepared by Qapital from public records, against 105,750 companies that did publish a turnover. No figure here was supplied by the company and none of it is advice. What it is missing is everything that actually sets a price: profitability, contracts, customer concentration, and whoever would run it next.

Close the gap

The range above exists because your turnover is not on public record. Tell us what it actually is and we will place you exactly against your trade, and send it back.

Goes to one inbox. No list, no sequence, and we will not pass it on. We buy companies as well as advise on them, so if yours is one we would be interested in, we will tell you that before anything else happens.