What a buyer sees
GAZEBO FINE FOODS LIMITED
Manufacture of other food products n.e.c. · London · 03769616
89staff · FY2023
27years trading
63oldest owner on file
£1.3Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£11Mfor the year to 2023
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
Staff89
2021113 → 892023
Cash at bank£1.3M
2021£1.5M → £1.3M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£122,942in the middle half
£95,089£228,153£441,871
Debtor daysdays58in the middle half
355672
Creditor daysdays31
193359
Stock daysdays14below almost all
183978
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 4
- The newest accounts on file are 32 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Everyone on the board is over 60There is no one on the register a buyer can see taking the business on. That is a discount if it stays that way and a negotiating point if it changes.
- Headcount fell from 112 to 89A 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 3
- 27 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 14 against 39 for the middle of 52 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
- 63since 2016
Directors
- since 1999
- 63since 1999
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £11M | 89 | £1.3M |
| 2022-12-31 | not filed | 112 | £1.5M |
| 2021-12-31 | not filed | 113 | £1.5M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£4.4M£9.8M
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.