What a buyer sees
CAMSTAR HERBS LIMITED
Other processing and preserving of fruit and vegetables · Eye · 01413300
87staff · FY2024
47years trading
—oldest owner on file
£644kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£24Mfor 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
Staff87
202277 → 872024
Cash at bank£644k
2022£3.3M → £644k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£275,520in the middle half
£97,107£248,496£1,064,164
Debtor daysdays68in the middle half
375180
Creditor daysdays29
163352
Stock daysdays124above almost all
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 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.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 124 against 32 for the middle of 36 comparable companies. That gap is working capital a buyer has to fund on day one, and it comes off the price.
- 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
- 47 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 78 to 87Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 55since 2008
- 54since 2013
- 59since 2018
- 37since 2022
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £24M | 87 | £644k |
| 2023-03-31 | £23M | 78 | £2.1M |
| 2022-03-31 | £22M | 77 | £3.3M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£9.6M£22M
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.