What a buyer sees
SAN MARCO LIMITED
Licensed restaurants · Preston · 02108482
240staff · FY2025
39years trading
73oldest owner on file
£610kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£8.2Mfor the year to 2025
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
Staff240
2021183 → 2402025
Cash at bank£610k
2021£1.4M → £610k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£34,224in the bottom quarter
£33,428£64,574£86,748
Debtor daysdays1below almost all
61079
Creditor daysdays23
112244
Stock daysdays59above almost all
5817
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 2
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 59 against 8 for the middle of 49 comparable companies. That gap is working capital a buyer has to fund on day one, and it comes off the price.
- 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
- 39 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 1 against 10 for the middle of 64 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 73since 2016
Directors
- 47since 2009
- 44since 2020
- 41since 2020
- 34since 2020
- 73
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-30 | 2026-07-30 | £8.2M | 240 | £610k |
| 2023-10-31 | — | not filed | 240 | £795k |
| 2022-10-30 | — | £8.6M | 245 | £1.6M |
| 2021-10-31 | — | £4.3M | 183 | £1.4M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£3.3M£7.4M
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.