What a buyer sees
ALLPRESS FARMS LIMITED
Growing of vegetables and melons, roots and tubers · Chatteris · 00840309
68staff · FY2024
61years trading
65oldest owner on file
£1.3Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£17Mfor 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
Staff68
202181 → 682024
Cash at bank£1.3M
2021£365k → £1.3M2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£252,753in the top quarter
£26,317£143,602£453,023
Debtor daysdays14in the bottom quarter
123162
Creditor daysdays27
163375
Stock daysdays61in the middle half
92483
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 5
- The newest accounts on file are 26 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Everyone on the board is over 60There is no one on the register a buyer can see taking the business on. That is a discount if it stays that way and a negotiating point if it changes.
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- Headcount fell from 82 to 68A 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
- 61 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 252,753 against 143,602 for the middle of 44 comparable companies.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 14 against 31 for the middle of 44 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 62since 2016
- 58since 2016
- 65since 2016
Directors
- 64since 2021
- 63since 2021
- 61since 2025
- 62
- 65
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-06-30 | £17M | 68 | £1.3M |
| 2023-06-30 | £17M | 82 | £0k |
| 2022-06-30 | not filed | 94 | £0k |
| 2021-06-30 | not filed | 81 | £365k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£6.9M£15M
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.