What a buyer sees
H. SMITH FOOD GROUP PLC
Wholesale of meat and meat products · Rainham · 02461736
40staff · FY2026
36years trading
67oldest owner on file
£2kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£110Mfor the year to 2026
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
Staff40
202236 → 402026
Cash at bank£2k
2022£14k → £2k2026
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£2,752,618above almost all
£148,084£403,300£2,088,295
Debtor daysdays37in the middle half
183460
Creditor daysdays17
112857
Stock daysdays30in the middle half
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 1
- 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
- 36 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 2,752,618 against 403,300 for the middle of 75 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 67since 2016
Directors
- 59since 1995
- 50since 2009
- 37since 2015
- 33since 2021
- since 2022
- 71since 2024
- 67
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-27 | 2026-08-01 | £110M | 40 | £2k |
| 2024-03-29 | — | £104M | 39 | £326k |
| 2022-04-01 | — | £93M | 36 | £14k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£39M£61M
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.