What a buyer sees
P B DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LIMITED
Public houses and bars · Aberdeen · SC097813
229staff · FY2024
40years trading
70oldest owner on file
£475kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£9.3Mfor 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
Staff229
2021158 → 2292024
Cash at bank£475k
2021£485k → £475k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£40,538in the middle half
£14,680£38,779£76,603
Debtor daysdays8in the bottom quarter
71347
Creditor daysdays21
102486
Stock daysdays8in the middle half
5821
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 29 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- 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 3
- 40 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 195 to 229Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 8 against 13 for the middle of 216 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 70since 2016
Directors
- since 2017
- 70
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £9.3M | 229 | £475k |
| 2023-03-31 | £7.3M | 195 | £378k |
| 2021-03-31 | £2.0M | 158 | £485k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£3.7M£8.3M
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.