What a buyer sees
MARBEC MEATS LIMITED
Wholesale of meat and meat products · London · 08927340
65staff · FY2023
12years trading
—oldest owner on file
£43kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£15Mfor 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
Staff65
202162 → 652023
Cash at bank£43k
2021£36k → £43k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£228,034in the middle half
£148,084£403,300£2,088,295
Debtor daysdays53in the top quarter
183460
Creditor daysdays28
112857
Stock daysdays8in the bottom quarter
61663
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 40 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 53 against 34 for the middle of 73 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 1
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 8 against 16 for the middle of 64 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 53since 2014
- 77since 2014
- since 2024
- 74since 2024
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-04-30 | £15M | 65 | £43k |
| 2022-04-30 | £11M | 63 | £2k |
| 2021-04-30 | £6.0M | 62 | £36k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£5.2M£8.2M
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.