What a buyer sees
CHERRY LANE RETAIL CENTRES LIMITED
Other retail sale in non-specialised stores · Nottingham · 01603760
918staff · FY2024
45years trading
—oldest owner on file
—cash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£65Mfor 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
Staff918
2022765 → 9182024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£70,342in the middle half
£19,793£87,295£362,066
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
82777
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
103191
Stock daysdays44in the middle half
1460145
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 30 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 1
- 45 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
- 59since 2013
- since 2022
- 58since 2022
- 96
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-02-29 | £65M | 918 | — |
| 2023-02-28 | £68M | 891 | — |
| 2022-02-28 | £68M | 765 | — |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.25–0.5× sales£16M£32M
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.