What a buyer sees
BROWNS FAMILY JEWELLERS LIMITED
Retail sale of watches and jewellery in specialised stores · Barnsley · 05750852
61staff · FY2024
20years trading
—oldest owner on file
£769kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£7.2Mfor the year to 2024
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
Staff61
202258 → 612024
Cash at bank£769k
2022£697k → £769k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£117,967in the middle half
£38,046£174,142£867,425
Debtor daysdays6below almost all
123977
Creditor daysdays19
133163
Stock daysdays281above almost all
36140257
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
- 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.
- 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.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 281 against 140 for the middle of 39 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 3
- 20 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 6 against 39 for the middle of 1,162 comparable companies.
- A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 62since 2006
- 63since 2006
- 62since 2015
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £7.2M | 61 | £769k |
| 2023-03-31 | £7.4M | 60 | £682k |
| 2022-03-31 | £6.9M | 58 | £697k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.25–0.5× sales£1.8M£3.6M
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.