What a buyer sees
CHILTON GRAIN LIMITED
Wholesale of grain, unmanufactured tobacco, seeds and animal feeds · Sudbury · 01049316
3staff · FY2023
54years trading
—oldest owner on file
£1.3Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£15Mfor 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
Staff3
20223 → 32023
Cash at bank£1.3M
2022£895k → £1.3M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£5,045,433above almost all
£19,007£90,760£837,682
Debtor daysdays16in the bottom quarter
1042130
Creditor daysdays25
929126
Stock daysdays27in the middle half
1051263
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 32 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 3
- 54 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 5,045,433 against 90,760 for the middle of 1,713 comparable companies.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 16 against 42 for the middle of 1,141 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
No current directors loaded.
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £15M | 3 | £1.3M |
| 2022-12-31 | not filed | 3 | £895k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£5.3M£8.3M
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.