What a buyer sees
PROCTOR AND STEVENSON LIMITED
Publishing of consumer and business journals and periodicals · Bristol · 02572010
42staff · FY2026
35years trading
—oldest owner on file
£106kcash at bank
Nobody can see what you turn over
11.7× spread£936k£11M
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: 3 figures against 32 companies in the same trade. An opening offer is built on the bottom of it.
What your filings show moving
Staff42
202268 → 422026
Cash at bank£106k
2022£1.5M → £106k2026
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employeenot on your filings
£17,433£102,976£251,616
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
1352133
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
923100
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
51893
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
- 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 £936k and £11M. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
- Headcount fell from 61 to 42A 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 1
- 35 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 61since 2015
- 59since 2015
- 44since 2023
- 52since 2023
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-31 | 2026-08-05 | not filed | 42 | £106k |
| 2024-03-31 | — | not filed | 61 | £115k |
| 2023-03-31 | — | not filed | 71 | £1.1M |
| 2022-03-31 | — | not filed | 68 | £1.5M |