What a buyer sees
WEST SCOTTISH LAMB LIMITED
Retail sale of meat and meat products in specialised stores · Industrial Estate Carlisle · 04450315
71staff · FY2024
24years trading
63oldest owner on file
£3.5Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£57Mfor the year to 2024
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
Staff71
202272 → 712024
Cash at bank£3.5M
2022£3.3M → £3.5M2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£802,049above almost all
£98,596£257,484£692,330
Debtor daysdays33in the middle half
123977
Creditor daysdays21
133163
Stock daysdays3below almost all
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 3
- 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.
- Everyone on the board is over 60There is no one on the register a buyer can see taking the business on. That is a discount if it stays that way and a negotiating point if it changes.
- 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 4
- 24 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 802,049 against 257,484 for the middle of 1,551 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 3 against 48 for the middle of 1,442 comparable companies.
- A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.
What the register says
Owners
- 63since 2016
- 60since 2016
Directors
- since 2002
- 60since 2002
- 63since 2002
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £57M | 71 | £3.5M |
| 2023-03-31 | £52M | 67 | £4.1M |
| 2022-03-31 | £52M | 72 | £3.3M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.25–0.5× sales£14M£28M
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.