What a buyer sees
COX FOODMARKETS LTD
Retail sale in non-specialised stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating · Enniskillen · NI047760
20staff · FY2024
23years trading
59oldest owner on file
£125kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£3.5Mfor 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.
What your filings show moving
Staff20
202223 → 202024
Cash at bank£125k
2022£60k → £125k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£173,300in the middle half
£30,596£135,260£516,458
Debtor daysdays0below almost all
154790
Creditor daysdays24
92045
Stock daysdays11in the middle half
71226
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 29 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Headcount fell from 39 to 20A 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 3
- 23 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 0 against 47 for the middle of 1,452 comparable companies.
- A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.
What the register says
Owners
- 54since 2016
- 59since 2016
Directors
- since 2003
- 59since 2003
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £3.5M | 20 | £125k |
| 2023-03-31 | not filed | 39 | £37k |
| 2022-03-31 | not filed | 23 | £60k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.25–0.5× sales£870k£1.7M
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.