What a buyer sees
LILY'S SOCIAL KITCHEN CIC
Unlicensed restaurants and cafes · Ashford · 11210362
14staff · FY2024
8years trading
—oldest owner on file
£93kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£558kfor the year to 2024
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
Staff14
202212 → 142024
Cash at bank£93k
2022£22k → £93k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£39,829in the middle half
£10,087£22,900£71,284
Debtor daysdays19in the middle half
71882
Creditor daysdays7
101546
Stock daysdays1below almost all
4737
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 newest accounts on file are 30 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Headcount fell from 16 to 14A 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
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 1 against 7 for the middle of 63 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 52since 2018
- 73since 2019
- 52since 2020
- 84since 2020
- 55since 2021
- 60since 2021
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-02-28 | £558k | 14 | £93k |
| 2023-02-28 | £503k | 16 | £68k |
| 2022-02-28 | £224k | 12 | £22k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£220k£500k
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.