What a buyer sees
MY FISH COMPANY LIMITED
Wholesale of other food, including fish, crustaceans and molluscs · Fleetwood · 09533965
56staff · FY2023
11years trading
55oldest owner on file
£368kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£11Mfor 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
Staff56
202151 → 562023
Cash at bank£368k
2021£698k → £368k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£190,671in the bottom quarter
£150,331£401,586£2,327,261
Debtor daysdays36in the middle half
204076
Creditor daysdays32
162649
Stock daysdays13in the bottom quarter
84081
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.
- Headcount fell from 73 to 56A 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 1
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 13 against 40 for the middle of 38 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 55since 2016
Directors
- 55since 2015
- 44since 2025
- 26since 2026
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £11M | 56 | £368k |
| 2022-12-31 | not filed | 73 | £124k |
| 2021-12-31 | not filed | 51 | £698k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£3.7M£5.9M
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.