What a buyer sees
D D C FOODS LIMITED
Wholesale of fruit and vegetable juices, mineral water and soft drinks · Hemel Hempstead · 03662079
80staff · FY2024
28years trading
61oldest owner on file
£6kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£25Mfor 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
Staff80
202159 → 802024
Cash at bank£6k
2021£6k → £6k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£318,249in the middle half
£98,596£257,484£692,330
Debtor daysdays67in the top quarter
123977
Creditor daysdays26
133163
Stock daysdays14in the bottom quarter
1248117
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 28 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 67 against 39 for the middle of 1,162 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
- 28 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 14 against 48 for the middle of 1,442 comparable companies.
- A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.
What the register says
Owners
- 61since 2016
- 54since 2016
Directors
- 61since 1998
- since 2001
- 65since 2007
- 60since 2011
- 36since 2016
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-30 | £25M | 80 | £6k |
| 2023-04-30 | not filed | 87 | £3k |
| 2022-04-30 | £17M | 80 | £4k |
| 2021-04-30 | £6.3M | 59 | £6k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£8.9M£14M
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.