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What a buyer sees

WHITWORTH CHEMISTS LIMITED

Dispensing chemist in specialised stores · Scunthorpe · 03818717

140staff · FY2025
27years trading
85oldest owner on file
£1.6Mcash at bank

Your turnover is on public record

filed
£12Mfor 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

Staff140
2023301 → 1402025
Cash at bank£1.6M
2023£37k → £1.6M2025

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employee£89,159below almost all
£89,159
£95,753£142,090£223,271
Debtor daysdays7below almost all
7
263053
Creditor daysdays16
16
284463
Stock daysdays8below almost all
8
131935

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 3

  • The last accounts went in 15 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.
  • Headcount fell from 301 to 140A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
  • 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

  • 27 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
  • Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 7 against 30 for the middle of 33 comparable companies.
  • Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 8 against 19 for the middle of 38 comparable companies.
  • A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.

What the register says

Owners

  • 85since 2016
  • 53since 2016

Directors

  • since 1999
  • 53since 2007
  • 60since 2009
Accounts on public record
Year toFiledTurnoverStaffCash
2025-03-262026-07-03£12M140£1.6M
2023-03-31—£31M301£37k

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.25–0.5× sales
£3.1M
£6.2M

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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