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What a buyer sees

CHANNELS LODGE LIMITED

Hotels and similar accommodation · Chelmsford · 05574884

27staff · FY2025
21years trading
70oldest owner on file
£198kcash at bank

Nobody can see what you turn over, including us

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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

Staff27
202110 → 272025
Cash at bank£198k
2021£295k → £198k2025

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employeenot on your filings
£29,898£61,265£204,705
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
71368
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
1023117
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
4634

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

  • 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 last accounts went in 10 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.
  • 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

  • 21 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
  • Headcount grew from 21 to 27Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
  • A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.

What the register says

Owners

  • 70since 2016
  • 62since 2016

Directors

  • since 2005
  • 62since 2005
Accounts on public record
Year toFiledTurnoverStaffCash
2025-09-302026-08-28not filed27£198k
2023-09-30—not filed21£120k
2022-09-30—not filed15£46k
2021-09-30—not filed10£295k

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.