What a buyer sees
AN:ARTISTS INFORMATION COMPANY
Other publishing activities · Newcastle Upon Tyne · 01626331
11staff · FY2024
44years trading
—oldest owner on file
£812kcash at bank
Nobody can see what you turn over
11.3× spread£157k£1.8M
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: 3 figures against 47 companies in the same trade. An opening offer is built on the bottom of it.
What your filings show moving
Staff11
202214 → 112024
Cash at bank£812k
2022£660k → £812k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employeenot on your filings
£22,157£90,921£284,125
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
1450148
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
1122106
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
51893
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 5
- 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 £157k and £1.8M. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
- 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.
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- Headcount fell from 13 to 11A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- 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
- 44 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
- 57since 2019
- 64since 2019
- 43since 2019
- 35since 2019
- 58since 2019
- 46since 2020
- 59since 2021
- 34since 2022
- 32since 2022
- 64since 2022
- 36since 2023
- since 2025
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | not filed | 11 | £812k |
| 2023-03-31 | not filed | 13 | £784k |
| 2022-03-31 | not filed | 14 | £660k |