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What a buyer sees

BLACKWELLS (BUTCHERS) LIMITED

Retail sale of meat and meat products in specialised stores · Stockton-On-Tees · 00537880

30staff · FY2025
72years trading
66oldest owner on file
£66kcash at bank

Nobody can see what you turn over, including us

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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

Staff30
202129 → 302025
Cash at bank£66k
2021£169k → £66k2025

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employeenot on your filings
£87,459£464,006£1,513,474
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
154790
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
102974
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
1150141

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 5

  • 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.
  • The last accounts went in 11 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.
  • 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.
  • The register shows an owner past retirement age and little elseWithout directors on file, a buyer cannot tell who actually runs the business day to day.
  • 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

  • 72 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
  • Headcount grew from 26 to 30Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.

What the register says

Owners

  • 66since 2016

Directors

Accounts on public record
Year toFiledTurnoverStaffCash
2025-08-312026-08-29not filed30£66k
2023-08-31—not filed26£73k
2022-08-31—not filed29£69k
2021-08-31—not filed29£169k

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.