What a buyer sees
D & B SCAFFOLDING LIMITED
Scaffold erection · Old Harlow · 02903125
41staff · FY2023
32years trading
—oldest owner on file
£5.9Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£19Mfor the year to 2023
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
Staff41
202129 → 412023
Cash at bank£5.9M
2021£2.3M → £5.9M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£460,176in the top quarter
£41,722£109,162£460,236
Debtor daysdays20below almost all
2056108
Creditor daysdays4
101740
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
622228
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 36 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
- 32 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 460,176 against 109,162 for the middle of 49 comparable companies.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 20 against 56 for the middle of 49 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- since 1994
- 67since 1994
- 40since 2024
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-31 | £19M | 41 | £5.9M |
| 2022-08-31 | £19M | 38 | £3.9M |
| 2021-08-31 | £16M | 29 | £2.3M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.7× sales£7.5M£13M
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.