What a buyer sees
DIRECT POULTRY SUPPLY (INSKIP) LIMITED
Wholesale of meat and meat products · Preston · 01053707
111staff · FY2024
54years trading
—oldest owner on file
£852kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£26Mfor 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
Staff111
2022126 → 1112024
Cash at bank£852k
2022£853k → £852k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£232,050in the middle half
£148,084£403,300£2,088,295
Debtor daysdays22in the middle half
183460
Creditor daysdays15
112857
Stock daysdays4below almost all
61663
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 3
- The newest accounts on file are 30 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.
- 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
- 54 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 4 against 16 for the middle of 64 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 58since 1993
- 55since 2015
- since 2020
- 66
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-02-29 | £26M | 111 | £852k |
| 2023-02-28 | £26M | 122 | £441k |
| 2022-02-28 | £26M | 126 | £853k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£9.0M£14M
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.