What a buyer sees
AGRICULTURAL CENTRAL TRADING LIMITED
Agents selling agricultural raw materials, livestock, textile raw materials and semi-finished goods · Shrewsbury · 00713606
90staff · FY2024
64years trading
59oldest owner on file
£4.8Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£122Mfor 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
Staff90
202394 → 902024
Cash at bank£4.8M
2023£621k → £4.8M2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£1,358,439above almost all
£98,596£257,484£692,330
Debtor daysdays81above almost all
123977
Creditor daysdays43
133163
Stock daysdays4below almost all
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 4
- The newest accounts on file are 26 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.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 81 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 3
- 64 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 1,358,439 against 257,484 for the middle of 1,551 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 4 against 48 for the middle of 1,442 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 59since 2021
Directors
- 56since 2016
- 51since 2019
- 59since 2019
- 65since 2020
- since 2020
- 45since 2021
- 57since 2023
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-06-30 | £122M | 90 | £4.8M |
| 2023-06-30 | £154M | 94 | £621k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£43M£67M
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.