What a buyer sees
FRESH APPROACH (UK) LIMITED
Video production activities · Manchester · 05210250
65staff · FY2025
22years trading
—oldest owner on file
£1.4Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£14Mfor the year to 2025
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
Staff65
202182 → 652025
Cash at bank£1.4M
2021£2.2M → £1.4M2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£219,888in the top quarter
£10,883£93,158£420,200
Debtor daysdays95in the top quarter
1749183
Creditor daysdays42
929133
Stock daysdays4below almost all
62386
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 4
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- Headcount fell from 81 to 65A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 95 against 49 for the middle of 47 comparable companies. That gap is working capital a buyer has to fund on day one, and it comes off the price.
- 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
- 22 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 219,888 against 93,158 for the middle of 34 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 4 against 23 for the middle of 109 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- since 2026
- 50since 2026
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 2026-07-29 | £14M | 65 | £1.4M |
| 2023-12-31 | — | £11M | 81 | £487k |
| 2022-12-31 | — | £18M | 85 | £1.6M |
| 2021-12-31 | — | £12M | 82 | £2.2M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£5.7M£13M
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.