What a buyer sees
CHELMER FOODS LIMITED
Other processing and preserving of fruit and vegetables · Braintree · 02704138
59staff · FY2026
34years trading
—oldest owner on file
£1.1Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£112Mfor the year to 2026
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
Staff59
202240 → 592026
Cash at bank£1.1M
2022£1.3M → £1.1M2026
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£1,901,281above almost all
£97,107£248,496£1,064,164
Debtor daysdays61in the middle half
375180
Creditor daysdays24
163352
Stock daysdays71in the middle half
832118
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 1
- 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 3
- 34 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 44 to 59Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 1,901,281 against 248,496 for the middle of 30 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 48since 2004
- 61since 2010
- since 2017
- 40since 2018
- 40since 2018
- 55since 2022
- 81
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-31 | 2026-08-25 | £112M | 59 | £1.1M |
| 2023-03-31 | — | £83M | 44 | £4.5M |
| 2022-03-31 | — | £79M | 40 | £1.3M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£45M£101M
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.