What a buyer sees
JEROBOAMS SHOPS LIMITED
Retail sale of bread, cakes, flour confectionery and sugar confectionery in specialised stores · 02923018
49staff · FY2024
32years trading
72oldest owner on file
£535kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£26Mfor the year to 2024
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
Staff49
202236 → 492024
Cash at bank£535k
2022£571k → £535k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£534,637above almost all
£16,099£43,407£164,750
Debtor daysdays53in the middle half
154790
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
102974
Stock daysdays15in the bottom quarter
1150141
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
- The newest accounts on file are 29 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- 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 4
- 32 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 43 to 49Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 534,637 against 43,407 for the middle of 33 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 15 against 50 for the middle of 1,657 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 72since 2016
Directors
- since 2005
- 36since 2020
- 46since 2020
- 58since 2020
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £26M | 49 | £535k |
| 2023-03-31 | £23M | 43 | £366k |
| 2022-03-31 | £24M | 36 | £571k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.25–0.5× sales£6.5M£13M
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.