What a buyer sees
ORGANICO REALFOODS LIMITED
Wholesale of other food, including fish, crustaceans and molluscs · Reading · 02610753
12staff · FY2023
35years trading
62oldest owner on file
£63kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£2.5Mfor 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
Staff12
202113 → 122023
Cash at bank£63k
2021£110k → £63k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£205,925in the bottom quarter
£150,331£401,586£2,327,261
Debtor daysdays62in the top quarter
204076
Creditor daysdays51
162649
Stock daysdays57in the middle half
84081
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 5
- The newest accounts on file are 36 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.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 62 against 40 for the middle of 43 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 1
- 35 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
- 62since 2016
Directors
- 62
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-30 | £2.5M | 12 | £63k |
| 2022-09-30 | not filed | 12 | — |
| 2021-09-30 | not filed | 13 | £110k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£860k£1.4M
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.