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What a buyer sees

IAN COLEY SPORTING LIMITED

Retail sale of sports goods, fishing gear, camping goods, boats and bicycles · Hungerford · 08115318

20staff · FY2026
14years trading
—oldest owner on file
£291kcash at bank

Your turnover is on public record

filed
£5.3Mfor the year to 2026

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

Staff20
202217 → 202026
Cash at bank£291k
2022£1.0M → £291k2026

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employee£266,240in the top quarter
£266,240
£16,413£118,675£401,615
Debtor daysdays3below almost all
3
154790
Creditor daysdays24
24
1535125
Stock daysdays177in the middle half
177
24106318

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 1

  • 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

  • Headcount grew from 18 to 20Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
  • Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 266,240 against 118,675 for the middle of 39 comparable companies.
  • Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 3 against 47 for the middle of 1,452 comparable companies.

What the register says

Owners

Nobody recorded with significant control.

Directors

  • 79since 2012
  • since 2016
  • 62since 2016
  • 64since 2016
  • 54since 2017
Accounts on public record
Year toFiledTurnoverStaffCash
2026-02-282026-08-21£5.3M20£291k
2024-02-29—£4.6M18£360k
2023-02-28—£4.2M15£427k
2022-02-28—£4.3M17£1.0M

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.25–0.5× sales
£1.3M
£2.7M

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.

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.

Tell us the rest

Your turnover is on file, but the things that set a price are not: margin, customer concentration, who would run it next. Tell us where you are and we will read it properly.

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