What a buyer sees
BECKHITHE FARMS LIMITED
Mixed farming · Norwich · 03471248
17staff · FY2024
29years trading
80oldest owner on file
£338kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£19Mfor the year to 2024
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
Staff17
202219 → 172024
Cash at bank£338k
2022£837k → £338k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£1,109,294above almost all
£17,465£111,889£349,591
Debtor daysdays0below almost all
1034142
Creditor daysdays3
123091
Stock daysdays56in the middle half
1169323
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 29 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Headcount fell from 19 to 17A 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
- 29 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 1,109,294 against 111,889 for the middle of 48 comparable companies.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 0 against 34 for the middle of 43 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 80since 2016
- 79since 2016
Directors
- since 1998
- 80since 1998
- 50since 1998
- 57since 1998
- 54since 1998
- 31since 2017
- 27since 2020
- 23since 2021
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £19M | 17 | £338k |
| 2023-03-31 | not filed | 19 | £431k |
| 2022-03-31 | not filed | 19 | £837k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£7.5M£17M
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.