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What a buyer sees

GAY TIMES LIMITED

Publishing of consumer and business journals and periodicals · Ipswich · 10611094

25staff · FY2023
9years trading
32oldest owner on file
£440kcash at bank

Nobody can see what you turn over

11.7× spread
£712k
£8.3M

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 32 companies in the same trade. An opening offer is built on the bottom of it.

What your filings show moving

Staff25
202114 → 252023
Cash at bank£440k
2021£98k → £440k2023

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employeenot on your filings
£17,433£102,976£251,616
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
1352133
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
923100
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 £712k and £8.3M. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
  • The newest accounts on file are 32 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 1

  • Headcount grew from 17 to 25Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.

What the register says

Owners

  • 32since 2022

Directors

  • 32since 2021
  • 34since 2025
  • 55since 2025
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2023-12-31not filed25£440k
2023-04-30not filed17£163k
2022-04-30not filed18£24k
2021-04-30not filed14£98k

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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