What a buyer sees
D. E. BRAND & SONS LIMITED
Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds · Surfleet · 04139134
1staff · FY2024
25years trading
—oldest owner on file
£119kcash at bank
Nobody can see what you turn over
9.4× spread£97k£914k
You file abbreviated accounts, as almost every company your size does, so the profit and loss account is not on public record. That band is what your balance sheet implies to anyone who looks: 2 figures against 54 companies in the same trade. An opening offer is built on the bottom of it.
What your filings show moving
Staff1
20227 → 12024
Cash at bank£119k
2022£491k → £119k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employeenot on your filings
£63,258£224,820£685,018
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
153776
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
112574
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
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 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. Working only from what you filed, the range lands between £97k and £914k. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
- The newest accounts on file are 29 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Headcount fell from 2 to 1A 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 1
- 25 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
No current directors loaded.
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | not filed | 1 | £119k |
| 2023-03-31 | not filed | 2 | £482k |
| 2022-03-31 | not filed | 7 | £491k |