What a buyer sees
STAFFORDSHIRE CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY LTD.
Activities of business and employers membership organizations · Stoke-On-Trent · 00465975
44staff · FY2024
77years trading
—oldest owner on file
£1.5Mcash at bank
Nobody can see what you turn over
5.9× spread£980k£5.8M
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 31 companies in the same trade and size. An opening offer is built on the bottom of it.
What your filings show moving
Staff44
202254 → 442024
Cash at bank£1.5M
2022£1.8M → £1.5M2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employeenot on your filings
£49,989£104,273£182,421
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
1151145
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
71944
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
71499
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 £980k and £5.8M. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
- The newest accounts on file are 30 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 54 to 44A 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
- 77 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 45since 2015
- 50since 2018
- 49since 2018
- 43since 2023
- 66since 2023
- 59since 2023
- 61since 2024
- since 2025
- 55since 2025
- 62since 2025
- 51since 2025
- 63since 2025
- 59since 2026
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | not filed | 44 | £1.5M |
| 2022-03-31 | not filed | 54 | £1.8M |