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What a buyer sees

ASSOCIATED PRODUCTION TOOLS LIMITED

Wholesale of other machinery and equipment · Hillington Park · SC157747

6staff · FY2024
31years trading
55oldest owner on file
£1.1Mcash at bank

Nobody can see what you turn over

8.1× spread
£681k
£5.5M

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 78 companies in the same trade. An opening offer is built on the bottom of it.

What your filings show moving

Staff6
20225 → 62024
Cash at bank£1.1M
2022£671k → £1.1M2024

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employeenot on your filings
£113,986£253,764£722,745
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
3062109
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
103775
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
2062141

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 £681k and £5.5M. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
  • The newest accounts on file are 26 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
  • One director on the registerA buyer's first question about a company run by one person is what happens to it if that person stops. It is usually the first thing priced.
  • 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

  • 31 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
  • Headcount grew from 5 to 6Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.

What the register says

Owners

  • 55since 2016

Directors

  • 55since 1995
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2024-06-30not filed6£1.1M
2023-06-30not filed5£759k
2022-06-30not filed5£671k

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.