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What a buyer sees

K L S (UK) LTD

Repair of other equipment · Bourne · 01298152

14staff · FY2025
49years trading
45oldest owner on file
£126kcash at bank

Nobody can see what you turn over

6.3× spread
£348k
£2.2M

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

What your filings show moving

Staff14
202116 → 142025
Cash at bank£126k
2021£129k → £126k2025

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employeenot on your filings
£38,928£121,744£272,757
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
2347131
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
112574
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
636127

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 5

  • 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 £348k and £2.2M. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
  • The last accounts went in 11 months after year endThe allowance is nine. A buyer reads a late filing as a question about the finance function rather than about the trading.
  • 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.
  • Headcount fell from 16 to 14A 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

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

What the register says

Owners

  • 45since 2016

Directors

  • 45since 2015
Accounts on public record
Year toFiledTurnoverStaffCash
2025-07-312026-07-29not filed14£126k
2023-07-31—not filed16£85k
2022-07-31—not filed16£85k
2021-07-31—not filed16£129k

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.

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