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What a buyer sees

ASHLEY ANDERSON LIMITED

Manufacture of other furniture · Nottingham · 04538102

171staff · FY2024
24years trading
—oldest owner on file
£11Mcash at bank

Nobody can see what you turn over

9.7× spread
£4.1M
£40M

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 30 companies in the same trade and size. An opening offer is built on the bottom of it.

What your filings show moving

Staff171
202277 → 1712024
Cash at bank£11M
2022£972k → £11M2024

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employeenot on your filings
£92,426£123,071£219,747
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
204873
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
142849
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
93773

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 4

  • 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 £4.1M and £40M. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
  • The newest accounts on file are 30 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.
  • 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 86 to 171Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.

What the register says

Owners

Nobody recorded with significant control.

Directors

  • 57since 2015
  • 42since 2023
  • 70since 2025
  • 33since 2025
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2024-02-28not filed171£11M
2023-02-28not filed86£1.9M
2022-02-28not filed77£972k

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.

Close the gap

The range above exists because your turnover is not on public record. Tell us what it actually is and we will place you exactly against your trade, and send it back.

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.