What a buyer sees
FERRYFAST PRODUCE LIMITED
Wholesale of fruit and vegetables · Pershore · 01486489
152staff · FY2024
46years trading
—oldest owner on file
£2.3Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£31Mfor 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
Staff152
2022144 → 1522024
Cash at bank£2.3M
2022£916k → £2.3M2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£206,725in the middle half
£130,794£490,650£2,548,261
Debtor daysdays35in the middle half
203668
Creditor daysdays30
133456
Stock daysdays3below almost all
41134
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 31 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
- 46 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 3 against 11 for the middle of 68 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
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- since 2015
- 51since 2015
- 81
- 84
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-01-31 | £31M | 152 | £2.3M |
| 2023-01-31 | £30M | 155 | £1.7M |
| 2022-01-31 | £22M | 144 | £916k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£11M£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.