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What a buyer sees

BLACK & WHITE FIRE SAFETY LTD

Other retail sale not in stores, stalls or markets · Stevenage · 05673354

70staff · FY2023
20years trading
48oldest owner on file
£1.2Mcash at bank

Nobody can see what you turn over

10.5× spread
£2.3M
£25M

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

What your filings show moving

Staff70
202172 → 702023
Cash at bank£1.2M
2021£542k → £1.2M2023

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employeenot on your filings
£160,940£258,017£666,878
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
1246110
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
1236147
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
851134

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 £2.3M and £25M. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
  • The newest accounts on file are 32 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
  • A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
  • Headcount fell from 90 to 70A 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

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

What the register says

Owners

  • 48since 2016

Directors

  • 48since 2007
  • 46since 2011
  • 39since 2023
  • 58since 2023
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2023-12-31not filed70£1.2M
2022-12-31not filed90£824k
2021-12-31not filed72£542k

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.