What a buyer sees
BRADBURY & SON (BUXTON) LIMITED
Butter and cheese production · Buxton · 00363223
151staff · FY2024
86years trading
—oldest owner on file
£1.3Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£65Mfor 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
Staff151
2022161 → 1512024
Cash at bank£1.3M
2022£1.0M → £1.3M2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£429,970above almost all
£88,871£162,513£362,127
Debtor daysdays37in the bottom quarter
265687
Creditor daysdays41
143363
Stock daysdays25in the middle half
1245115
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 2
- The newest accounts on file are 28 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- 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
- 86 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 429,970 against 162,513 for the middle of 2,152 comparable companies.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 37 against 56 for the middle of 2,030 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
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 77since 1994
- 56since 1998
- 50since 2008
- 49since 2013
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-03 | £65M | 151 | £1.3M |
| 2023-04-30 | £64M | 150 | £1.6M |
| 2022-04-30 | £68M | 161 | £1.0M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£26M£58M
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.