What a buyer sees
KEPAK KIRKHAM LIMITED
Production of meat and poultry meat products · Preston · 05101877
427staff · FY2023
22years trading
—oldest owner on file
£1kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£103Mfor 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
Staff427
2021499 → 4272023
Cash at bank£1k
2021£1k → £1k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£241,823in the middle half
£99,548£218,275£728,325
Debtor daysdays0below almost all
193858
Creditor daysdays23
142751
Stock daysdays49in the top quarter
61964
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 5
- 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 481 to 427A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 49 against 19 for the middle of 35 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
- 22 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 0 against 38 for the middle of 33 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 67since 2004
- 75since 2004
- since 2018
- 61since 2020
- since 2023
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £103M | 427 | £1k |
| 2022-12-31 | £109M | 481 | £1k |
| 2021-12-31 | £95M | 499 | £1k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£41M£93M
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.