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What a buyer sees

DOWNLAND MARKETING LIMITED

Support activities for animal production (other than farm animal boarding and care) n.e.c. · Carlisle · 00937379

13staff · FY2023
58years trading
—oldest owner on file
£479kcash at bank

Nobody can see what you turn over, including us

unknowable
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We size companies from the rest of the balance sheet. For this one, what you have filed does not narrow it to anything worth quoting, and we would rather say so than put a number here. That is the position every buyer looking at you is in, and they price uncertainty rather than ask about it.

What your filings show moving

Staff13
20214 → 132023
Cash at bank£479k
2021£279k → £479k2023

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employeenot on your filings
£55,828£315,689£848,405
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
193581
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
143273
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
1253136

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. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
  • 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.
  • 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

  • 58 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
  • Headcount grew from 11 to 13Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.

What the register says

Owners

Nobody recorded with significant control.

Directors

  • 74since 2003
  • 69since 2011
  • 60since 2012
  • 56since 2015
  • 54since 2022
  • 52since 2023
  • 64since 2023
  • 66since 2024
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2023-12-31not filed13£479k
2022-12-31not filed11£162k
2021-12-31not filed4£279k

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.