What a buyer sees
BRITISH FRANCHISE ASSOCIATION
Activities of business and employers membership organizations · Reading · 01341267
15staff · FY2024
49years trading
47oldest owner on file
£1.1Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£1.7Mfor 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
Staff15
202111 → 152024
Cash at bank£1.1M
2021£609k → £1.1M2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£113,560in the middle half
£49,989£104,273£182,421
Debtor daysdays18in the bottom quarter
1151145
Creditor daysdays4
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 3
- The newest accounts on file are 23 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.
- 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
- 49 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 18 against 51 for the middle of 60 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 47since 2016
Directors
- 66since 2013
- 47since 2016
- 60since 2017
- 60since 2018
- 46since 2019
- 63since 2021
- 60since 2022
- 43since 2024
- 43since 2024
- 54since 2025
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-09-30 | £1.7M | 15 | £1.1M |
| 2023-09-30 | £1.7M | 15 | £932k |
| 2022-09-30 | £1.6M | 13 | £875k |
| 2021-09-30 | £1.3M | 11 | £609k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£680k£1.5M
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.