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What a buyer sees

THE CAKE CREW LIMITED

Manufacture of rusks and biscuits; manufacture of preserved pastry goods and cakes · Bala · 07738348

256staff · FY2024
15years trading
oldest owner on file
£14kcash at bank

Nobody can see what you turn over

3.6× spread
£19M
£67M

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 196 companies in the same sector and size. An opening offer is built on the bottom of it.

What your filings show moving

Staff256
20232812562024
Cash at bank£14k
2023£31k£14k2024

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employeenot on your filings
£79,504£145,354£269,861
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
234984
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
133264
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
940100

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

  • 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 £19M and £67M. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
  • The newest accounts on file are 31 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 0

Nothing stands out yet from the filings alone.

What the register says

Owners

Nobody recorded with significant control.

Directors

  • 59since 2022
  • 47since 2022
  • 44since 2022
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2024-01-30not filed256£14k
2023-01-30not filed281£31k

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.40.9× sales
£7.4M
£61M

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.

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.

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