What a buyer sees
PRINGLE OF SCOTLAND LIMITED
Retail sale of clothing in specialised stores · Hawick · SC203627
14staff · FY2023
26years trading
66oldest owner on file
£689kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£2.7Mfor the year to 2023
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
Staff14
202218 → 142023
Cash at bank£689k
2022£187k → £689k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£190,643in the middle half
£29,088£117,250£383,903
Debtor daysdays26in the middle half
819116
Creditor daysdays24
1029107
Stock daysdays36in the middle half
1853200
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 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
- 26 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
- 66since 2023
Directors
- 68since 2023
- 66since 2023
- 45since 2024
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £2.7M | 14 | £689k |
| 2023-01-31 | not filed | 15 | £497k |
| 2022-01-31 | not filed | 18 | £187k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.25–0.5× sales£670k£1.3M
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.