What a buyer sees
GILLETT'S (CALLINGTON) LIMITED
Retail sale in non-specialised stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating · Cornwall · 02019776
528staff · FY2025
40years trading
—oldest owner on file
£0kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£97kfor 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
Staff528
2021571 → 5282025
Cash at bank£0k
2021£2k → £0k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£184below almost all
£27,004£107,627£227,458
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
92670
Creditor daysdays5
92045
Stock daysdays21in the middle half
81966
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 2
- The last accounts went in 10 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
- 40 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
- 54since 2016
- since 2018
- 59since 2020
- 61since 2021
- 62since 2025
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-26 | 2026-08-19 | £97k | 528 | £0k |
| 2023-09-30 | — | £110k | 549 | £0k |
| 2022-09-30 | — | £103k | 514 | £1k |
| 2021-09-30 | — | £104k | 571 | £2k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.25–0.5× sales£20k£50k
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.