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What a buyer sees

THE FRYING PAN (WETHERBY) LIMITED

Take-away food shops and mobile food stands · York · 07341474

8staff · FY2025
16years trading
60oldest owner on file
£54kcash at bank

Nobody can see what you turn over

5.4× spread
£79k
£430k

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

What your filings show moving

Staff8
20219 → 82025

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employeenot on your filings
£15,977£30,223£79,527
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
832166
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
91547
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
51274

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 £79k and £430k. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
  • Everyone on the board is over 60There is no one on the register a buyer can see taking the business on. That is a discount if it stays that way and a negotiating point if it changes.
  • Headcount fell from 10 to 8A 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

  • A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.

What the register says

Owners

  • 60since 2016

Directors

  • since 2011
  • 60since 2011
Accounts on public record
Year toFiledTurnoverStaffCash
2025-12-312026-07-24not filed8£54k
2023-12-31—not filed10—
2022-12-31—not filed9—
2021-12-31—not filed9—

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.