What a buyer sees
VILLAGE QUALITY PRODUCTS LIMITED
Wholesale of fruit and vegetable juices, mineral water and soft drinks · Loughton · 08373109
79staff · FY2024
13years trading
—oldest owner on file
£3.7Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£28Mfor 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
Staff79
202269 → 792024
Cash at bank£3.7M
2022£2.4M → £3.7M2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£348,860in the middle half
£98,596£257,484£692,330
Debtor daysdays78above almost all
123977
Creditor daysdays87
133163
Stock daysdays64in the middle half
1248117
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 6
- 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.
- One director on the registerA buyer's first question about a company run by one person is what happens to it if that person stops. It is usually the first thing priced.
- 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.
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 78 against 39 for the middle of 1,162 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 0
Nothing stands out yet from the filings alone.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 60since 2013
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £28M | 79 | £3.7M |
| 2023-03-31 | £30M | 87 | £3.6M |
| 2022-03-31 | £29M | 69 | £2.4M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£9.7M£15M
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.