What a buyer sees
LISTER HORSFALL LIMITED
Retail sale of watches and jewellery in specialised stores · Halifax · 00172196
25staff · FY2024
106years trading
—oldest owner on file
£511kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£14Mfor 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
Staff25
202125 → 252024
Cash at bank£511k
2021£1.4M → £511k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£566,712in the top quarter
£38,046£174,142£867,425
Debtor daysdays0below almost all
154790
Creditor daysdays26
102974
Stock daysdays125in the middle half
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 2
- The newest accounts on file are 28 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- 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
- 106 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 566,712 against 174,142 for the middle of 36 comparable companies.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 0 against 47 for the middle of 1,452 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 43since 2008
- 57since 2021
- 40since 2021
- 44since 2021
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-30 | £14M | 25 | £511k |
| 2022-04-30 | £12M | 24 | £1.1M |
| 2021-04-30 | not filed | 25 | £1.4M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.25–0.5× sales£3.5M£7.1M
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.