What a buyer sees
SPIRIT OF 1873 LTD
Activities of sport clubs · Wilmslow · 07511179
80staff · FY2023
15years trading
79oldest owner on file
£479kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£4.6Mfor the year to 2023
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
Staff80
2021117 → 802023
Cash at bank£479k
2021£785k → £479k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£57,864in the top quarter
£10,124£29,224£96,474
Debtor daysdays14in the middle half
81861
Creditor daysdays38
92355
Stock daysdays2below almost all
51346
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
- The newest accounts on file are 34 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Headcount fell from 112 to 80A 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 2
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 57,864 against 29,224 for the middle of 124 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 2 against 13 for the middle of 54 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 38since 2026
- 42since 2026
- 72since 2026
- 79since 2026
Directors
- 79since 2023
- 42since 2023
- 44since 2024
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-11-30 | £4.6M | 80 | £479k |
| 2022-11-30 | not filed | 112 | £173k |
| 2021-11-30 | not filed | 117 | £785k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£1.9M£4.2M
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.