What a buyer sees
ALVIS BROTHERS LIMITED
Raising of dairy cattle · Bristol · 00502230
184staff · FY2024
75years trading
78oldest owner on file
£204kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£27Mfor 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
Staff184
2022137 → 1842024
Cash at bank£204k
2022£1.7M → £204k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£146,097in the middle half
£67,121£151,072£330,129
Debtor daysdays36in the middle half
133559
Creditor daysdays16
132962
Stock daysdays202above almost all
942145
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
- 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.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 202 against 42 for the middle of 113 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
- 75 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 122 to 184Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.
What the register says
Owners
- 78since 2016
Directors
- 57since 2007
- 55since 2007
- 78
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £27M | 184 | £204k |
| 2023-03-31 | £34M | 122 | £1.8M |
| 2022-03-31 | £32M | 137 | £1.7M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£11M£24M
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.