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What a buyer sees

RALPH PEARSON WHOLESALE BUTCHERS LIMITED

Production of meat and poultry meat products · Bradford · 12488639

33staff · FY2026
6years trading
—oldest owner on file
£465kcash at bank

Your turnover is on public record

filed
£62Mfor 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

Staff33
202238 → 332026
Cash at bank£465k
2022£831k → £465k2026

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employee£1,880,697above almost all
£1,880,697
£99,548£218,275£728,325
Debtor daysdays32in the middle half
32
193858
Creditor daysdays4
4
142751
Stock daysdays6in the bottom quarter
6
61964

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

  • Headcount fell from 38 to 33A 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 2

  • Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 1,880,697 against 218,275 for the middle of 32 comparable companies.
  • Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 6 against 19 for the middle of 35 comparable companies.

What the register says

Owners

Nobody recorded with significant control.

Directors

  • since 2020
  • 48since 2020
  • 55since 2020
Accounts on public record
Year toFiledTurnoverStaffCash
2026-03-312026-08-11£62M33£465k
2024-03-31—£47M38£464k
2023-03-31—£47M38£401k
2022-03-31—£41M38£831k

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.4–0.9× sales
£25M
£56M

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.

Prepared by Qapital from public records, against 105,750 companies that did publish a turnover. No figure here was supplied by the company and none of it is advice. What it is missing is everything that actually sets a price: profitability, contracts, customer concentration, and whoever would run it next.

Tell us the rest

Your turnover is on file, but the things that set a price are not: margin, customer concentration, who would run it next. Tell us where you are and we will read it properly.

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