What a buyer sees
THORNTON SUGAR LIMITED
Wholesale of sugar and chocolate and sugar confectionery · Bury St Edmunds · 07876622
10staff · FY2024
15years trading
60oldest owner on file
£1.1Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£46Mfor 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
Staff10
20229 → 102024
Cash at bank£1.1M
2022£17k → £1.1M2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£4,580,650above almost all
£87,459£464,006£1,513,474
Debtor daysdays49in the middle half
154790
Creditor daysdays28
102974
Stock daysdays11in the bottom 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 2
- The newest accounts on file are 29 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 2
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 4,580,650 against 464,006 for the middle of 1,880 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 11 against 50 for the middle of 1,657 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 60since 2016
Directors
- 60since 2011
- since 2023
- 67since 2024
- 32since 2024
- 35since 2024
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £46M | 10 | £1.1M |
| 2023-03-31 | not filed | 11 | £972k |
| 2022-03-31 | not filed | 9 | £17k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£16M£25M
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.