What a buyer sees
MANUKA DOCTOR (UK) LIMITED
Wholesale of other food, including fish, crustaceans and molluscs · London · 07731067
21staff · FY2024
15years trading
46oldest owner on file
£402kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£17Mfor 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.
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£795,481in the middle half
£150,331£401,586£2,327,261
Debtor daysdays18below almost all
204076
Creditor daysdays1
162649
Stock daysdays59in the top quarter
84081
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 59 against 40 for the middle of 38 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 1
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 18 against 40 for the middle of 43 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 46since 2016
Directors
- 53since 2012
- 46since 2012
- since 2018
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £17M | 21 | £402k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£5.8M£9.2M
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.