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What a buyer sees

FOUNDATION FOR INFORMATION POLICY RESEARCH

Research and experimental development on social sciences and humanities · Cambridge · 03574631

8staff · FY2025
28years trading
—oldest owner on file
—cash at bank

Nobody can see what you turn over, including us

unknowable
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We size companies from the rest of the balance sheet. For this one, what you have filed does not narrow it to anything worth quoting, and we would rather say so than put a number here. That is the position every buyer looking at you is in, and they price uncertainty rather than ask about it.

What your filings show moving

Staff8
20215 → 82025

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employeenot on your filings
£13,430£52,888£374,443
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
1348186
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
930166
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
632182

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. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
  • 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

  • 28 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
  • Headcount grew from 5 to 8Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.

What the register says

Owners

Nobody recorded with significant control.

Directors

  • 73since 2002
  • 37since 2025
  • 72since 2025
  • 65since 2025
  • 66since 2025
  • 52since 2025
  • 41since 2025
  • 46since 2025
  • 83since 2025
Accounts on public record
Year toFiledTurnoverStaffCash
2025-10-312026-07-30not filed8—
2023-10-31—not filed5—
2022-10-31—not filed5—
2021-10-31—not filed5—

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.