What a buyer sees
SAKATA UK LIMITED
Wholesale of grain, unmanufactured tobacco, seeds and animal feeds · Boston · 02822116
25staff · FY2026
33years trading
56oldest owner on file
£5.9Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£11Mfor the year to 2026
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
Staff25
202420 → 252026
Cash at bank£5.9M
2024£6.5M → £5.9M2026
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£437,512in the middle half
£87,459£464,006£1,513,474
Debtor daysdays90in the top quarter
154790
Creditor daysdays6
102974
Stock daysdays42in the middle half
1150141
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
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 90 against 47 for the middle of 1,452 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 2
- 33 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 20 to 25Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
What the register says
Owners
- 56since 2023
- 48since 2023
Directors
- 56since 2009
- since 2010
- 66since 2014
- 48since 2023
- 50since 2023
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-31 | 2026-07-25 | £11M | 25 | £5.9M |
| 2024-03-31 | — | £7.8M | 20 | £6.5M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£3.8M£6.0M
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.