What a buyer sees
FRIARY MILL BAKERY LIMITED
Production of meat and poultry meat products · Plymouth · 04618171
127staff · FY2026
24years trading
67oldest owner on file
£71kcash at bank
Nobody can see what you turn over
10.7× spread£442k£4.7M
You file abbreviated accounts, as almost every company your size does, so the profit and loss account is not on public record. That band is what your balance sheet implies to anyone who looks: 4 figures against 33 companies in the same trade. An opening offer is built on the bottom of it.
What your filings show moving
Staff127
2022101 → 1272026
Cash at bank£71k
2022£334k → £71k2026
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employeenot on your filings
£99,548£218,275£728,325
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
193858
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
142751
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
61964
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
- Your turnover is not on fileYou file abbreviated accounts, as most companies your size do, so a buyer cannot see what the business turns over and has to estimate it. Working only from what you filed, the range lands between £442k and £4.7M. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
- Headcount fell from 142 to 127A 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 1
- 24 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
- 64since 2016
- 67since 2016
Directors
- since 2002
- 67since 2002
- 46since 2024
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-31 | 2026-06-25 | not filed | 127 | £71k |
| 2024-01-31 | — | not filed | 142 | £146k |
| 2023-01-31 | — | not filed | 119 | £327k |
| 2022-01-31 | — | not filed | 101 | £334k |