What a buyer sees
BLUE SKIES (UK) LIMITED
Other processing and preserving of fruit and vegetables · Northampton · 03402110
199staff · FY2022
29years trading
—oldest owner on file
£18kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£30Mfor 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
Staff199
2021157 → 1992022
Cash at bank£18k
2021£32k → £18k2022
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£151,586in the middle half
£97,107£248,496£1,064,164
Debtor daysdays0below almost all
375180
Creditor daysdays15
163352
Stock daysdays11in the bottom quarter
832118
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 45 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 4
- 29 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 157 to 199Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 0 against 50 for the middle of 35 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 11 against 32 for the middle of 36 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 80since 1997
- 79since 1997
- since 1997
- 58since 2014
- 46since 2019
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-12-25 | £30M | 199 | £18k |
| 2021-12-26 | £24M | 157 | £32k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£12M£27M
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.