What a buyer sees
ASKEW & BARRETT (PULSES) LIMITED
Agents selling agricultural raw materials, livestock, textile raw materials and semi-finished goods · Cambridgeshire · 01661244
31staff · FY2024
44years trading
79oldest owner on file
£3kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£11Mfor 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
Staff31
202231 → 312024
Cash at bank£3k
2022£7k → £3k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£368,187in the middle half
£87,459£464,006£1,513,474
Debtor daysdays53in the middle half
154790
Creditor daysdays10
102974
Stock daysdays114in the top quarter
1150141
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 30 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 114 against 50 for the middle of 1,657 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
- 44 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.
What the register says
Owners
- 76since 2016
- 79since 2016
Directors
- since 2000
- 41since 2015
- 49since 2015
- 76
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-02-29 | £11M | 31 | £3k |
| 2023-02-28 | £12M | 32 | £3k |
| 2022-02-28 | £12M | 31 | £7k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£4.0M£6.3M
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.