What a buyer sees
CHRISTEYNS FOOD HYGIENE LTD
Manufacture of soap and detergents · Warrington · 02456403
77staff · FY2023
37years trading
56oldest owner on file
£5.0Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£36Mfor 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
Staff77
202173 → 772023
Cash at bank£5.0M
2021£2.5M → £5.0M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£467,778above almost all
£88,871£162,513£362,127
Debtor daysdays59in the middle half
265687
Creditor daysdays16
143363
Stock daysdays18in the bottom quarter
1245115
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 2
- The newest accounts on file are 32 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- 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
- 37 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 467,778 against 162,513 for the middle of 2,152 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 18 against 45 for the middle of 2,028 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 56since 2017
Directors
- 57since 2012
- 63since 2012
- 64since 2012
- since 2014
- 62since 2019
- 56since 2022
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £36M | 77 | £5.0M |
| 2022-12-31 | £29M | 77 | £2.1M |
| 2021-12-31 | £18M | 73 | £2.5M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£14M£32M
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.