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What a buyer sees

123 RETAIL LIMITED

Retail sale of footwear in specialised stores · Grimsby · 10535440

185staff · FY2023
10years trading
68oldest owner on file
£221kcash at bank

Your turnover is on public record

filed
£20Mfor 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

Staff185
2022125 → 1852023
Cash at bank£221k
2022£564k → £221k2023

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employee£108,222in the bottom quarter
£108,222
£98,596£257,484£692,330
Debtor daysdays1below almost all
1
123977
Creditor daysdays16
16
133163
Stock daysdays45in the middle half
45
1248117

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

  • The newest accounts on file are 43 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
  • 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 2

  • Headcount grew from 125 to 185Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
  • Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 1 against 39 for the middle of 1,162 comparable companies.

What the register says

Owners

  • 68since 2024

Directors

  • 68since 2024
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2023-01-29£20M185£221k
2022-01-29£16M125£564k

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.25–0.5× sales
£5.0M
£10M

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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