What a buyer sees
HARVEY & BROCKLESS LIMITED
Wholesale of dairy products, eggs and edible oils and fats · Nottingham · 01442472
370staff · FY2022
47years trading
—oldest owner on file
£3.9Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£98Mfor the year to 2022
Unusual at this size, and it works in your favour: a buyer is reading your number rather than guessing at one.
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£264,651in the middle half
£55,016£133,898£465,126
Debtor daysdays46in the middle half
92670
Creditor daysdays60
133365
Stock daysdays26in the bottom quarter
1847108
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 47 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 2
- 47 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 26 against 47 for the middle of 166 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
No current directors loaded.
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-09-30 | £98M | 370 | £3.9M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£34M£54M
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.