What a buyer sees
OUT OF EDEN LIMITED
Non-specialised wholesale trade · Cumbria · 03178081
74staff · FY2025
30years trading
—oldest owner on file
£519kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£11Mfor 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
Staff74
202183 → 742025
Cash at bank£519k
2021£2.4M → £519k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£152,623in the bottom quarter
£121,758£262,690£455,471
Debtor daysdays18below almost all
195078
Creditor daysdays11
113257
Stock daysdays58in the middle half
2052120
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 3
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- Headcount fell from 83 to 74A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- 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
- 30 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 18 against 50 for the middle of 118 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- since 1996
- 36since 2022
- 49since 2023
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-30 | 2026-08-07 | £11M | 74 | £519k |
| 2023-11-30 | — | £13M | 83 | £3.8M |
| 2022-11-30 | — | £12M | 86 | £1.9M |
| 2021-11-30 | — | not filed | 83 | £2.4M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£4.0M£6.2M
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.