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Food Processor Supplying Retail And Catering Customers In Liverpool
Liverpool, Merseyside, North WestIdentity protected
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About this business
This Liverpool food processor prepares chilled ready meals, soups and cooked components for retailers, wholesalers and catering firms. It has traded since 2004 from leased industrial premises and employs 48 across production, hygiene and dispatch. Turnover has grown each year from £6.86m to £8.9m, but EBITDA has grown more slowly, from £707k to £776k, so margins have narrowed to about 9%. Net assets of £2.88m exceed the £2.45m asking price. A buyer could relocate the production plant if another location suited them better.
Key investment highlights
- Turnover up 30% since 2021
- Net assets of £2.88m
- Team of 48
- Fixed assets of £2.13m
Reason for sale
The family shareholders have agreed a planned exit after 22 years.
Nothing flagged on the two questions buyers ask first
No flagRevenue going backwards and one client being too much of it are the two things that end most deals in due diligence. Both are shown here up front, from the figures the seller supplied.
- Revenue directionNo flag
Turnover rose +4.9% in 2026.
- 2021: baseline
- 2022 (+6.8%)
- 2023 (+3.0%)
- 2024 (+7.5%)
- 2025 (+4.6%)
- 2026 (+4.9%)
6 years of turnover, 2021 to 2026, as supplied by the seller.
- Client concentrationNot stated
The seller has not declared what share of revenue the largest clients represent.
No declaration supplied. Client concentration cannot be derived from accounts.
EBITDA margin narrowed from 10.3% in 2021 to 8.7% in 2026.
These are observations from the supplied figures, not a view on whether this business is worth buying. Nothing here predicts an outcome.
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What happens next
Submit an enquiry to the seller. Once they approve it, you sign a non-disclosure agreement and gain access to the information memorandum, the financials and a secure deal room with the seller.