What a buyer sees
ALLEN (HANFORD) LIMITED
Mixed farming · Didcot · 04018781
41staff · FY2024
26years trading
—oldest owner on file
—cash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£12Mfor 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
Staff41
202245 → 412024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£286,244in the top quarter
£17,465£111,889£349,591
Debtor daysdays10below almost all
1034142
Creditor daysdays27
123091
Stock daysdays98in 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 2
- 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.
- 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
- 26 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 286,244 against 111,889 for the middle of 48 comparable companies.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 10 against 34 for the middle of 43 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 70since 2000
- 77since 2000
- 45since 2007
- 46since 2007
- 39since 2014
- 36since 2022
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £12M | 41 | — |
| 2022-03-31 | not filed | 45 | — |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£4.7M£11M
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.