What a buyer sees
ARKELL'S BREWERY LIMITED
Manufacture of beer · Swindon · 00226913
338staff · FY2024
99years trading
75oldest owner on file
£7kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£29Mfor 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
Staff338
2021238 → 3382024
Cash at bank£7k
2021£1k → £7k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£86,228in the bottom quarter
£79,504£145,354£269,861
Debtor daysdays18below almost all
234984
Creditor daysdays26
133264
Stock daysdays20in the middle half
940100
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
- 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.
- 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
- 99 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 238 to 338Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 18 against 49 for the middle of 206 comparable companies.
- A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.
What the register says
Owners
- 75since 2016
Directors
- 48since 2004
- 65since 2008
- since 2013
- 41since 2015
- 75
- 71
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £29M | 338 | £7k |
| 2021-03-31 | £7.7M | 238 | £1k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£12M£26M
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.