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Wholesale of clothing and footwear · Northallerton · 03581137

31staff · FY2025
28years trading
66oldest owner on file
£9kcash at bank

Nobody can see what you turn over

11.4× spread
£418k
£4.7M

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 42 companies in the same trade and size. An opening offer is built on the bottom of it.

What your filings show moving

Staff31
202135 → 312025
Cash at bank£9k
2021£67k → £9k2025

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employeenot on your filings
£91,097£489,234£1,487,511
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
2051105
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
163782
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
1473151

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 £418k and £4.7M. 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

  • 28 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.

What the register says

Owners

  • 66since 2025

Directors

  • 66since 2013
Accounts on public record
Year toFiledTurnoverStaffCash
2025-06-302026-06-30not filed31£9k
2023-12-31—not filed34£23k
2022-12-31—not filed35£38k
2021-12-31—not filed35£67k

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.

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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.

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