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What a buyer sees

THE ABBEY GROUP CAMBRIDGESHIRE LIMITED

Activities of head offices · Huntingdon · 02197844

16staff · FY2023
39years trading
76oldest owner on file
£70kcash at bank

Nobody can see what you turn over

7.9× spread
£447k
£3.5M

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

What your filings show moving

Staff16
202113 → 162023
Cash at bank£70k
2021£34k → £70k2023

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employeenot on your filings
£39,757£148,370£807,775
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
1957131
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
102481
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
734122

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 £447k and £3.5M. 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.
  • Everyone on the board is over 60There is no one on the register a buyer can see taking the business on. That is a discount if it stays that way and a negotiating point if it changes.
  • 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.
  • Headcount grew from 14 to 16Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.

What the register says

Owners

  • 76since 2016

Directors

  • since 1996
  • 62since 2022
  • 76
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2023-12-31not filed16£70k
2022-12-31not filed14£332k
2021-12-31£9.4M13£34k

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.