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What a buyer sees

BEST FOODS LIMITED

Wholesale of fruit and vegetables · Harpenden · 04527390

18staff · FY2023
24years trading
49oldest owner on file
£2.5Mcash at bank

Your turnover is on public record

filed
£64Mfor 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

Staff18
202218 → 182023
Cash at bank£2.5M
2022£661k → £2.5M2023

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employee£3,582,344above almost all
£3,582,344
£334,476£818,630£2,827,385
Debtor daysdays26in the bottom quarter
26
203668
Creditor daysdays28
28
133456
Stock daysdays16in the middle half
16
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 35 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
  • One director on the registerA buyer's first question about a company run by one person is what happens to it if that person stops. It is usually the first thing priced.
  • 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

  • 24 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
  • Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 3,582,344 against 818,630 for the middle of 40 comparable companies.
  • Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 26 against 36 for the middle of 97 comparable companies.

What the register says

Owners

  • 49since 2016
  • 49since 2016

Directors

  • 49since 2003
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2023-09-30£64M18£2.5M
2022-09-30£57M18£661k

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.35–0.55× sales
£23M
£35M

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.

Prepared by Qapital from public records, against 105,750 companies that did publish a turnover. No figure here was supplied by the company and none of it is advice. What it is missing is everything that actually sets a price: profitability, contracts, customer concentration, and whoever would run it next.

Tell us the rest

Your turnover is on file, but the things that set a price are not: margin, customer concentration, who would run it next. Tell us where you are and we will read it properly.

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