What a buyer sees
THE PORTMAN GROUP
Activities of other membership organizations n.e.c. · London · 02184853
7staff · FY2024
39years trading
—oldest owner on file
£173kcash at bank
Nobody can see what you turn over
11.7× spread£265k£3.1M
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 40 companies in the same trade and size. An opening offer is built on the bottom of it.
What your filings show moving
Staff7
20228 → 72024
Cash at bank£173k
2022£113k → £173k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employeenot on your filings
£11,876£41,167£194,773
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
1039175
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
92597
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
723203
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 4
- 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 £265k and £3.1M. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
- The newest accounts on file are 29 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- 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 1
- 39 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 60since 2020
- 58since 2020
- 56since 2022
- 58since 2022
- 53since 2023
- 49since 2023
- 46since 2024
- 53since 2024
- 64since 2025
- 56since 2025
- 49since 2025
- 61since 2025
- 39since 2026
- 59since 2026
- 55since 2026
- 54since 2026
- 41since 2026
- 52since 2026
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | not filed | 7 | £173k |
| 2023-03-31 | not filed | 7 | £220k |
| 2022-03-31 | not filed | 8 | £113k |