What a buyer sees
APRONS GALORE & MORE LTD
Take-away food shops and mobile food stands · London · 04639736
3staff · FY2024
23years trading
61oldest owner on file
—cash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£85kfor 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
Staff3
20224 → 32024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£28,300in the middle half
£15,977£30,223£79,527
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
832166
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
91547
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
51274
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 2
- The newest accounts on file are 31 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- 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
- 23 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
- 50since 2016
- 61since 2016
Directors
No current directors loaded.
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-01-31 | £85k | 3 | — |
| 2023-01-31 | £92k | 3 | — |
| 2022-01-31 | £68k | 4 | — |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£30k£80k
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.