What a buyer sees
DUNSTERS FARM LIMITED
Wholesale of dairy products, eggs and edible oils and fats · Lancs · 00786115
87staff · FY2023
63years trading
—oldest owner on file
£999kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£24Mfor the year to 2023
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
Staff87
202153 → 872023
Cash at bank£999k
2021£1.1M → £999k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£280,079in the middle half
£98,596£257,484£692,330
Debtor daysdays42in the middle half
123977
Creditor daysdays46
133163
Stock daysdays14in the bottom quarter
1248117
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 32 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 3
- 63 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 53 to 87Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 14 against 48 for the middle of 1,442 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 40since 2015
- 42since 2015
- since 2026
- 70
- 69
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £24M | 87 | £999k |
| 2021-12-31 | not filed | 53 | £1.1M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£8.5M£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.