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What a buyer sees

HERB TRADING LIMITED

Public houses and bars · London · 12874230

9staff · FY2023
6years trading
60oldest owner on file
—cash at bank

Nobody can see what you turn over, including us

unknowable
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We size companies from the rest of the balance sheet. For this one, what you have filed does not narrow it to anything worth quoting, and we would rather say so than put a number here. That is the position every buyer looking at you is in, and they price uncertainty rather than ask about it.

What your filings show moving

Staff9
20212 → 92023

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employeenot on your filings
£13,767£40,273£76,339
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
832166
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
1029136
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
5827

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. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
  • The newest accounts on file are 35 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 1

  • Headcount grew from 8 to 9Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.

What the register says

Owners

  • 60since 2020

Directors

  • 60since 2020
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2023-09-30not filed9—
2022-09-30not filed8—
2021-09-30not filed2—

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.