What a buyer sees
MASON'S ANIMAL FEEDS LTD
Manufacture of prepared feeds for farm animals · Co Armagh · NI051986
58staff · FY2025
22years trading
55oldest owner on file
£1.5Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£77Mfor 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
Staff58
202141 → 582025
Cash at bank£1.5M
2021£561k → £1.5M2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£1,330,607above almost all
£88,871£162,513£362,127
Debtor daysdays50in the middle half
265687
Creditor daysdays12
143363
Stock daysdays10below almost all
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 1
- 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 5
- 22 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 50 to 58Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 1,330,607 against 162,513 for the middle of 2,152 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 10 against 45 for the middle of 2,028 comparable companies.
- A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.
What the register says
Owners
- 55since 2016
Directors
- 55since 2004
- since 2013
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-31 | 2026-06-24 | £77M | 58 | £1.5M |
| 2023-10-31 | — | £60M | 50 | £1.0M |
| 2022-10-31 | — | £49M | 45 | £400k |
| 2021-10-31 | — | £36M | 41 | £561k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£31M£69M
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.