What a buyer sees
PEREGRINE LIVEFOODS LTD
Wholesale of other intermediate products · Ongar · 04415888
166staff · FY2023
24years trading
—oldest owner on file
£103kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£20Mfor 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
Staff166
2022186 → 1662023
Cash at bank£103k
2022£39k → £103k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£120,575below almost all
£131,031£357,535£1,252,795
Debtor daysdays34in the bottom quarter
275789
Creditor daysdays30
102768
Stock daysdays29in the bottom quarter
2960130
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 4
- The newest accounts on file are 39 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- Headcount fell from 186 to 166A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- 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.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 34 against 57 for the middle of 98 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 29 against 60 for the middle of 90 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 41since 2017
- 53since 2023
- 42since 2025
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-05-31 | £20M | 166 | £103k |
| 2022-05-31 | £21M | 186 | £39k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£7.0M£11M
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.