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What a buyer sees

SPECIAL BUS LIMITED

Performing arts · London · 05528167

5staff · FY2025
21years trading
—oldest owner on file
£55kcash at bank

Nobody can see what you turn over

8.4× spread
£29k
£242k

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

What your filings show moving

Staff5
20211 → 52025

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employeenot on your filings
£5,913£17,300£44,540
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
1026125
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
1024158
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
619172

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 £29k and £242k. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
  • The last accounts went in 11 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.
  • 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 2

  • 21 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
  • A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.

What the register says

Owners

Nobody recorded with significant control.

Directors

  • 46since 2005
  • 48since 2005
  • 47since 2005
  • 48since 2005
  • 46since 2005
Accounts on public record
Year toFiledTurnoverStaffCash
2025-08-312026-08-28not filed5£55k
2023-08-31—not filed5—
2022-08-31—not filed5—
2021-08-31—not filed1—

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.