What a buyer sees
OMEGA INGREDIENTS LIMITED
Manufacture of other food products n.e.c. · Great Blakenham · 04277313
41staff · FY2022
25years trading
—oldest owner on file
£175kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£11Mfor the year to 2022
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
Staff41
202134 → 412022
Cash at bank£175k
2021£921k → £175k2022
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£273,446in the middle half
£60,205£205,507£711,777
Debtor daysdays57in the middle half
355475
Creditor daysdays30
203471
Stock daysdays76in the top quarter
174284
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 4
- The newest accounts on file are 44 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 76 against 42 for the middle of 81 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
- 25 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 34 to 41Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 70since 2001
- 55since 2022
- 37since 2022
- 61since 2022
- 39since 2025
- 56since 2025
- 66since 2025
- since 2026
- 35since 2026
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-12-31 | £11M | 41 | £175k |
| 2021-08-31 | not filed | 34 | £921k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£4.5M£10M
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.