What a buyer sees
DENNIS BUTLER LIMITED
Wholesale of fruit and vegetables · Hull · 01655808
0staff · FY2023
44years trading
78oldest owner on file
£1.2Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£22Mfor 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
Staff0
202164 → 02023
Cash at bank£1.2M
2021£1.5M → £1.2M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employeenot on your filings
£130,794£490,650£2,548,261
Debtor daysdays28in the bottom quarter
223970
Creditor daysdays24
92555
Stock daysdays4below almost all
41134
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 36 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- The register shows an owner past retirement age and little elseWithout directors on file, a buyer cannot tell who actually runs the business day to day.
- 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
- 44 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 4 against 11 for the middle of 68 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 78since 2016
- 55since 2021
- 53since 2021
- 78since 2021
Directors
No current directors loaded.
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-31 | £22M | 0 | £1.2M |
| 2022-08-31 | £19M | 0 | £1.0M |
| 2021-08-31 | £17M | 64 | £1.5M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£7.7M£12M
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.