What a buyer sees
ANGLIAN COUNTRY INNS LIMITED
Licensed restaurants · Hitchin · 03214479
406staff · FY2024
30years trading
—oldest owner on file
£1.5Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£21Mfor 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
Staff406
2022326 → 4062024
Cash at bank£1.5M
2022£3.0M → £1.5M2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£50,683in the middle half
£35,403£45,783£66,639
Debtor daysdays3below almost all
61079
Creditor daysdays15
132338
Stock daysdays4below almost all
5827
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 3
- 30 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 2 against 10 for the middle of 64 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 4 against 8 for the middle of 158 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 80since 1996
- 77since 1997
- 45since 2005
- 42since 2009
- since 2012
- 46since 2013
- 66since 2019
- 56since 2025
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £21M | 406 | £1.5M |
| 2023-04-02 | not filed | 383 | £1.8M |
| 2022-04-03 | £14M | 326 | £3.0M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£8.2M£19M
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.