What a buyer sees
FOUNTAIN FOODS LIMITED
Manufacture of other food products n.e.c. · Wisbech · 03224610
67staff · FY2025
30years trading
74oldest owner on file
£624kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£18Mfor 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
Staff67
202288 → 672025
Cash at bank£624k
2022£521k → £624k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£273,528in the middle half
£95,089£228,153£441,871
Debtor daysdays69in the top quarter
355672
Creditor daysdays23
193359
Stock daysdays19in the bottom quarter
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 3
- Headcount fell from 92 to 67A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 69 against 56 for the middle of 51 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 3
- 30 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 19 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
- 74since 2016
Directors
- since 1996
- 51since 1996
- 74since 1996
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-30 | 2026-08-28 | £18M | 67 | £624k |
| 2023-11-30 | — | £20M | 92 | £809k |
| 2022-11-30 | — | £16M | 88 | £521k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£7.3M£16M
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.