What a buyer sees
SUNCROP PRODUCE LIMITED
Wholesale of fruit and vegetables · Harlow · 03255798
14staff · FY2023
30years trading
63oldest owner on file
£1.3Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£50Mfor 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
Staff14
202115 → 142023
Cash at bank£1.3M
2021£830k → £1.3M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£3,595,521above almost all
£334,476£818,630£2,827,385
Debtor daysdays37in the middle half
203668
Creditor daysdays43
133456
Stock daysdays2below 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 35 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
- 30 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 3,595,521 against 818,630 for the middle of 40 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 2 against 11 for the middle of 68 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 63since 2016
- 54since 2019
Directors
- 63since 1996
- 48since 2006
- since 2014
- 54since 2024
- 54since 2026
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-30 | £50M | 14 | £1.3M |
| 2022-09-30 | £50M | 14 | £267k |
| 2021-09-30 | £48M | 15 | £830k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£18M£28M
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.