What a buyer sees
TILN FARMS LIMITED
Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds · Nottinghamshire · 00579589
5staff · FY2023
69years trading
74oldest owner on file
£20kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£734kfor 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.
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£146,780in the middle half
£63,258£224,820£685,018
Debtor daysdays40in the middle half
153776
Creditor daysdays72
112574
Stock daysdays421above almost all
2061205
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
- The newest accounts on file are 35 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 421 against 61 for the middle of 67 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 1
- 69 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
- 74since 2016
- 42since 2016
Directors
- 75since 1992
- 42since 2014
- since 2024
- 74
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-30 | £734k | 5 | £20k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£290k£660k
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.