What a buyer sees
FINE ORGANICS LIMITED
Manufacture of other organic basic chemicals · Middlesbrough · 01532065
282staff · FY2025
46years trading
—oldest owner on file
£6.5Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£89Mfor the year to 2025
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
Staff282
2021320 → 2822025
Cash at bank£6.5M
2021£4.9M → £6.5M2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£316,241above almost all
£79,504£145,354£269,861
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
234984
Creditor daysdays10
133264
Stock daysdays128above almost all
940100
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
- Headcount fell from 353 to 282A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 128 against 40 for the middle of 212 comparable companies. That gap is working capital a buyer has to fund on day one, and it comes off the price.
- 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 2
- 46 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 316,241 against 145,354 for the middle of 196 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 40since 2022
- 53since 2025
- 53since 2025
- since 2025
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 2026-08-05 | £89M | 282 | £6.5M |
| 2023-12-31 | — | £67M | 353 | £3.4M |
| 2022-12-31 | — | £49M | 336 | £1.9M |
| 2021-12-31 | — | £72M | 320 | £4.9M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£36M£80M
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.