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What a buyer sees

HOURGLASS COSMETICS UK LIMITED

Other retail sale not in stores, stalls or markets · London · 07646207

104staff · FY2025
15years trading
—oldest owner on file
—cash at bank

Your turnover is on public record

filed
£26Mfor the year to 2025

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

Staff104
202156 → 1042025

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employee£248,428in the middle half
£248,428
£160,940£258,017£666,878
Debtor daysdays88in the top quarter
88
1246110
Creditor daysdays5
5
1236147
Stock daysdays50in the middle half
50
851134

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

  • A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
  • Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 88 against 46 for the middle of 98 comparable companies. That gap is working capital a buyer has to fund on day one, and it comes off the price.
  • 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 80 to 104Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.

What the register says

Owners

Nobody recorded with significant control.

Directors

  • 54since 2024
  • 35since 2024
  • 43since 2025
Accounts on public record
Year toFiledTurnoverStaffCash
2025-12-312026-08-20£26M104—
2023-12-31—£16M80—
2022-12-31—£10M62—
2021-12-31—£8.6M56—

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.25–0.5× sales
£6.5M
£13M

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.

Prepared by Qapital from public records, against 105,750 companies that did publish a turnover. No figure here was supplied by the company and none of it is advice. What it is missing is everything that actually sets a price: profitability, contracts, customer concentration, and whoever would run it next.

Tell us the rest

Your turnover is on file, but the things that set a price are not: margin, customer concentration, who would run it next. Tell us where you are and we will read it properly.

Goes to one inbox. No list, no sequence, and we will not pass it on. We buy companies as well as advise on them, so if yours is one we would be interested in, we will tell you that before anything else happens.