What a buyer sees
T.H.CLEMENTS & SON LIMITED
Growing of vegetables and melons, roots and tubers · Boston · 00869514
463staff · FY2024
60years trading
—oldest owner on file
£174kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£90Mfor 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
Staff463
2021401 → 4632024
Cash at bank£174k
2021£55k → £174k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£195,363in the middle half
£26,317£143,602£453,023
Debtor daysdays34in the middle half
123162
Creditor daysdays31
163375
Stock daysdays40in the middle half
92483
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 1
- 60 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 45since 2006
- 67since 2009
- 52since 2011
- since 2025
- 58since 2025
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-05 | £90M | 463 | £174k |
| 2023-04-05 | £76M | 439 | £1.1M |
| 2022-04-05 | £72M | 433 | £220k |
| 2021-04-05 | £66M | 401 | £55k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£36M£81M
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.