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What a buyer sees

J.WILD(CONFECTIONERS)LIMITED

Manufacture of bread; manufacture of fresh pastry goods and cakes · Keighley · 00355189

246staff · FY2024
87years trading
83oldest owner on file
£286kcash at bank

Your turnover is on public record

filed
£15Mfor 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.

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employee£59,243in the middle half
£59,243
£42,178£76,351£155,157
Debtor daysdays57in the top quarter
57
84266
Creditor daysdays18
18
132443
Stock daysdays39above almost all
39
71939

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 5

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 57 against 42 for the middle of 41 comparable companies. That gap is working capital a buyer has to fund on day one, and it comes off the price.
  • Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 39 against 19 for the middle of 32 comparable companies. That gap is working capital a buyer has to fund on day one, and it comes off the price.
  • 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

  • 87 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.

What the register says

Owners

  • 83since 2016

Directors

  • 92
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2024-01-31£15M246£286k

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.4–0.9× sales
£5.8M
£13M

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.

Prepared by Qapital from public records, against 105,750 companies that did publish a turnover. No figure here was supplied by the company and none of it is advice. What it is missing is everything that actually sets a price: profitability, contracts, customer concentration, and whoever would run it next.

Tell us the rest

Your turnover is on file, but the things that set a price are not: margin, customer concentration, who would run it next. Tell us where you are and we will read it properly.

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