What a buyer sees
ESSENTIA PROTEIN SOLUTIONS LIMITED
Processing and preserving of meat · Tipton · 00946600
45staff · FY2023
57years trading
—oldest owner on file
£188kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£21Mfor 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
Staff45
202146 → 452023
Cash at bank£188k
2021£1k → £188k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£460,311in the top quarter
£104,714£233,788£690,032
Debtor daysdays61above almost all
173560
Creditor daysdays6
102543
Stock daysdays47in the top quarter
71957
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
- 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.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 61 against 35 for the middle of 42 comparable companies. That gap is working capital a buyer has to fund on day one, and it comes off the price.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 47 against 19 for the middle of 39 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 2
- 57 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 460,311 against 233,788 for the middle of 42 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 67since 2002
- 58since 2005
- 65since 2005
- 51since 2016
- since 2021
- 59since 2024
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £21M | 45 | £188k |
| 2022-12-31 | £16M | 45 | £370k |
| 2021-12-31 | £15M | 46 | £1k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£8.3M£19M
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.