What a buyer sees
PRIORY FARM ESTATE LIMITED
Retail sale of fruit and vegetables in specialised stores · Redhill · 11551299
147staff · FY2024
8years trading
65oldest owner on file
£625kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£8.8Mfor 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
Staff147
202165 → 1472024
Cash at bank£625k
2021£801k → £625k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£59,821below almost all
£98,596£257,484£692,330
Debtor daysdays2below almost all
123977
Creditor daysdays25
133163
Stock daysdays25in the bottom quarter
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 2
- The newest accounts on file are 29 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
- Headcount grew from 111 to 147Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 2 against 39 for the middle of 1,162 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 25 against 48 for the middle of 1,442 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 65since 2018
- 61since 2026
Directors
- 65since 2018
- 61since 2018
- 40since 2019
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £8.8M | 147 | £625k |
| 2023-03-31 | £8.5M | 111 | £1.2M |
| 2021-12-31 | not filed | 65 | £801k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.25–0.5× sales£2.2M£4.4M
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.