What a buyer sees
B & T KITSON LIMITED
Retail sale of meat and meat products in specialised stores · Richmond · 04518857
47staff · FY2025
24years trading
60oldest owner on file
£21kcash at bank
Nobody can see what you turn over
8.3× spread£2.3M£19M
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 1,520 companies in the same sector and size. An opening offer is built on the bottom of it.
What your filings show moving
Staff47
202143 → 472025
Cash at bank£21k
2021£302k → £21k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employeenot on your filings
£87,459£464,006£1,513,474
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
154790
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
102974
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
1150141
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 £2.3M and £19M. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
- Everyone on the board is over 60There is no one on the register a buyer can see taking the business on. That is a discount if it stays that way and a negotiating point if it changes.
- 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 2
- 24 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 42 to 47Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
What the register says
Owners
- 60since 2016
- 59since 2016
Directors
- 60since 2002
- since 2017
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-30 | 2026-08-28 | not filed | 47 | £21k |
| 2023-11-30 | — | not filed | 42 | £429k |
| 2022-11-30 | — | not filed | 41 | £349k |
| 2021-11-30 | — | not filed | 43 | £302k |