What a buyer sees
BROWNINGS THE BAKERS LIMITED
Manufacture of bread; manufacture of fresh pastry goods and cakes · Kilmarnock · SC218108
212staff · FY2024
25years trading
62oldest owner on file
£193kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£14Mfor 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
Staff212
2021179 → 2122024
Cash at bank£193k
2021£123k → £193k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£65,783in the middle half
£42,178£76,351£155,157
Debtor daysdays31in the middle half
84266
Creditor daysdays21
132443
Stock daysdays7below almost all
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 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.
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- 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
- 25 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 7 against 19 for the middle of 32 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 62since 2016
Directors
- since 2001
- 33since 2022
- 49since 2026
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £14M | 212 | £193k |
| 2023-03-31 | £13M | 199 | £5k |
| 2022-03-31 | not filed | 177 | £5k |
| 2021-03-31 | not filed | 179 | £123k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£5.6M£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.