What a buyer sees
PREETI CATERING LIMITED
Event catering activities · Pinner · 04744357
16staff · FY2025
23years trading
38oldest owner on file
£449kcash at bank
Nobody can see what you turn over
10.6× spread£67k£709k
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: 4 figures against 48 companies in the same trade. An opening offer is built on the bottom of it.
What your filings show moving
Staff16
20218 → 162025
Cash at bank£449k
2021£502k → £449k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employeenot on your filings
£9,509£32,998£115,093
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
1138126
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
821120
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
410183
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 5
- 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 £67k and £709k. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
- The last accounts went in 12 months after year endThe allowance is nine. A buyer reads a late filing as a question about the finance function rather than about the trading.
- 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
- 23 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
- 38since 2026
Directors
- 75since 2003
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-30 | 2026-06-30 | not filed | 16 | £449k |
| 2023-06-30 | — | not filed | 15 | £636k |
| 2022-06-30 | — | not filed | 8 | £613k |
| 2021-06-30 | — | not filed | 8 | £502k |