What a buyer sees
BABYNOV CHICHESTER LIMITED
Manufacture of other food products n.e.c. · Chichester · 11997133
75staff · FY2023
7years trading
64oldest owner on file
£308kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£17Mfor the year to 2023
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
Staff75
202155 → 752023
Cash at bank£308k
2021£9k → £308k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£229,613in the middle half
£95,089£228,153£441,871
Debtor daysdays36in the bottom quarter
355672
Creditor daysdays26
193359
Stock daysdays39in the middle half
183978
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
- The newest accounts on file are 32 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.
- 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 1
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 36 against 56 for the middle of 51 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 64since 2019
Directors
- 64since 2019
- since 2019
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £17M | 75 | £308k |
| 2022-12-31 | £17M | 80 | £1.1M |
| 2021-12-31 | not filed | 55 | £9k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£6.9M£16M
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.