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What a buyer sees

DE FONTENAY LIMITED

Other information service activities n.e.c. · Grimsby · 07449629

28staff · FY2025
16years trading
40oldest owner on file
£707kcash at bank

Nobody can see what you turn over

5.5× spread
£596k
£3.3M

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

Staff28
202120 → 282025
Cash at bank£707k
2021£473k → £707k2025

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employeenot on your filings
£35,207£80,868£175,866
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
1340151
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
82390
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
51893

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 £596k and £3.3M. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
  • One director on the registerA buyer's first question about a company run by one person is what happens to it if that person stops. It is usually the first thing priced.
  • 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

  • Headcount grew from 25 to 28Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.

What the register says

Owners

  • 40since 2016

Directors

  • 40since 2011
Accounts on public record
Year toFiledTurnoverStaffCash
2025-11-302026-08-28not filed28£707k
2023-11-30—not filed25£475k
2022-11-30—not filed20£446k
2021-11-30—not filed20£473k

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.

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