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What a buyer sees

SAMLESBURY HALL LIMITED

Retail sale of other second-hand goods in stores (not incl. antiques) · Samlesbury · 01486341

48staff · FY2023
46years trading
—oldest owner on file
£86kcash 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

Staff48
202138 → 482023
Cash at bank£86k
2021£301k → £86k2023

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employeenot on your filings
£13,616£31,729£274,573
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
154790
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
102974
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
1150141

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 32 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
  • A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
  • Headcount fell from 54 to 48A 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

  • 46 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

  • 71since 2006
  • 78since 2012
  • 79since 2016
  • 41since 2017
  • 78since 2019
  • 63since 2021
  • 53since 2023
  • 67since 2024
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2023-12-31not filed48£86k
2022-12-31not filed54£258k
2021-12-31not filed38£301k

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.