What a buyer sees
CN SEEDS LIMITED
Non-specialised wholesale trade · Pymoor · 04783634
40staff · FY2022
23years trading
—oldest owner on file
£467kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£9.6Mfor 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
Staff40
202137 → 402022
Cash at bank£467k
2021£717k → £467k2022
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£239,355in the bottom quarter
£165,955£424,674£1,097,429
Debtor daysdays122above almost all
225791
Creditor daysdays23
92661
Stock daysdays90in the middle half
2262151
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 46 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 122 against 57 for the middle of 200 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
- 23 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- since 2003
- 75since 2003
- 51since 2003
- 78since 2014
- 51since 2020
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-10-31 | £9.6M | 40 | £467k |
| 2021-10-31 | not filed | 37 | £717k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£3.4M£5.3M
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.