What a buyer sees
DIRECT PRODUCE SUPPLIES LIMITED
Wholesale of fruit and vegetables · London · 01336601
123staff · FY2025
49years trading
—oldest owner on file
£18Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£746Mfor the year to 2025
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
Staff123
202172 → 1232025
Cash at bank£18M
2021£24M → £18M2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£6,069,016above almost all
£130,794£490,650£2,548,261
Debtor daysdays32in the middle half
203668
Creditor daysdays30
133456
Stock daysdays2below almost all
41134
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
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- 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
- 49 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 92 to 123Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 6,069,016 against 490,650 for the middle of 100 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 2 against 11 for the middle of 68 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 60since 1998
- 59since 1999
- 51since 2017
- 54since 2018
- 43since 2024
- 36since 2024
- 46since 2025
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-30 | 2026-06-30 | £746M | 123 | £18M |
| 2023-09-30 | — | £456M | 92 | £13M |
| 2022-09-30 | — | £430M | 79 | £14M |
| 2021-09-30 | — | £355M | 72 | £24M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£261M£411M
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.