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What a buyer sees

JOHN GRIMES PARTNERSHIP LIMITED

Construction of other civil engineering projects n.e.c. · Ivybridge · 04184549

28staff · FY2026
25years trading
45oldest owner on file
£481kcash at bank

Nobody can see what you turn over

7.8× spread
£369k
£2.9M

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: 4 figures against 49 companies in the same trade and size. An opening offer is built on the bottom of it.

What your filings show moving

Staff28
202234 → 282026
Cash at bank£481k
2022£452k → £481k2026

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employeenot on your filings
£75,047£386,641£1,126,151
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
1645103
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
163169
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
61569

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 £369k and £2.9M. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
  • Headcount fell from 33 to 28A 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 1

  • 25 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.

What the register says

Owners

  • 45since 2024
  • 36since 2024

Directors

  • 36since 2020
  • 45since 2020
Accounts on public record
Year toFiledTurnoverStaffCash
2026-03-312026-09-08not filed28£481k
2024-03-31—not filed33£278k
2023-03-31—not filed35£388k
2022-03-31—not filed34£452k

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.