What a buyer sees
HISTORIC NEWSPAPERS LIMITED
Retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet · London · 05182542
25staff · FY2025
22years trading
—oldest owner on file
£848kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£8.1Mfor the year to 2025
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
Staff25
20229 → 252025
Cash at bank£848k
2022£85k → £848k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£325,180in the middle half
£70,666£281,221£926,979
Debtor daysdays2below almost all
82254
Creditor daysdays56
122973
Stock daysdays30in the bottom quarter
2870118
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 4
- 22 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 10 to 25Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 2 against 22 for the middle of 33 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 30 against 70 for the middle of 46 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 52since 2023
- since 2025
- 48since 2025
- 44since 2025
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 2026-07-16 | £8.1M | 25 | £848k |
| 2023-03-31 | — | not filed | 10 | £226k |
| 2022-03-31 | — | not filed | 9 | £85k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.25–0.5× sales£2.0M£4.1M
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.