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What a buyer sees

N S JAMES LIMITED

Retail sale of meat and meat products in specialised stores · Pontypool · 06853689

15staff · FY2026
17years trading
92oldest owner on file
£138kcash at bank

Nobody can see what you turn over

10.2× spread
£435k
£4.4M

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 1,520 companies in the same sector and size. An opening offer is built on the bottom of it.

What your filings show moving

Staff15
202215 → 152026
Cash at bank£138k
2022£133k → £138k2026

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employeenot on your filings
£87,459£464,006£1,513,474
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
154790
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
102974
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
1150141

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 £435k and £4.4M. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
  • One director on the registerA buyer's first question about a company run by one person is what happens to it if that person stops. It is usually the first thing priced.
  • Everyone on the board is over 60There is no one on the register a buyer can see taking the business on. That is a discount if it stays that way and a negotiating point if it changes.
  • 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 11 to 15Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.

What the register says

Owners

  • 92since 2019

Directors

  • 60since 2009
Accounts on public record
Year toFiledTurnoverStaffCash
2026-05-312026-07-28not filed15£138k
2024-05-31—not filed11£56k
2023-05-31—not filed13£153k
2022-05-31—not filed15£133k

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.

Goes to one inbox. No list, no sequence, and we will not pass it on. We buy companies as well as advise on them, so if yours is one we would be interested in, we will tell you that before anything else happens.