What a buyer sees
WILLOW QUALITY RETAIL LIMITED
Retail sale in non-specialised stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating · Walsall · 12071478
16staff · FY2025
7years trading
66oldest owner on file
£65kcash at bank
Nobody can see what you turn over
6.3× spread£1.1M£7.1M
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: 2 figures against 31 companies in the same trade and size. An opening offer is built on the bottom of it.
What your filings show moving
Staff16
202112 → 162025
Cash at bank£65k
2022£51k → £65k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employeenot on your filings
£30,596£135,260£516,458
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
154790
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
92045
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
71226
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
- 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 £1.1M and £7.1M. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
- The last accounts went in 12 months after year endThe allowance is nine. A buyer reads a late filing as a question about the finance function rather than about the trading.
- 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
- Headcount grew from 10 to 16Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
What the register says
Owners
- 66since 2019
- 66since 2019
- 46since 2026
Directors
- 66since 2019
- 66since 2019
- 46since 2026
- 45since 2026
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-30 | 2026-06-30 | not filed | 16 | £65k |
| 2023-06-30 | — | not filed | 10 | £111k |
| 2022-06-30 | — | not filed | 12 | £51k |
| 2021-06-30 | — | not filed | 12 | — |