What a buyer sees
DELAMERE DAIRY LIMITED
Wholesale of dairy products, eggs and edible oils and fats · Knutsford · 03761294
33staff · FY2023
27years trading
—oldest owner on file
£77kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£38Mfor the year to 2023
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
Staff33
202128 → 332023
Cash at bank£77k
2021£11k → £77k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£1,148,333in the top quarter
£87,459£464,006£1,513,474
Debtor daysdays41in the middle half
154790
Creditor daysdays26
102974
Stock daysdays20in the bottom quarter
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
- The newest accounts on file are 32 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- 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
- 27 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 1,148,333 against 464,006 for the middle of 1,880 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 20 against 50 for the middle of 1,657 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- since 1999
- 49since 2008
- 64since 2017
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £38M | 33 | £77k |
| 2022-12-31 | £34M | 30 | £33k |
| 2021-12-31 | £29M | 28 | £11k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£13M£21M
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.