What a buyer sees
SOUTH WEST BRICK AND STONE LIMITED
Agents involved in the sale of timber and building materials · Bovey Tracey · 04254501
8staff · FY2025
25years trading
60oldest owner on file
£857kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£5.9Mfor the year to 2025
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
Staff8
20217 → 82025
Cash at bank£857k
2021£482k → £857k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£734,588in the top quarter
£146,892£285,967£856,934
Debtor daysdays33in the bottom quarter
234783
Creditor daysdays37
193862
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
254174
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 3
- 25 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 734,588 against 285,967 for the middle of 119 comparable companies.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 33 against 47 for the middle of 113 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 60since 2016
- 55since 2016
Directors
- since 2001
- 55since 2006
- 53since 2021
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 2026-09-15 | £5.9M | 8 | £857k |
| 2023-12-31 | — | £7.0M | 8 | £517k |
| 2022-12-31 | — | £8.9M | 8 | £605k |
| 2021-12-31 | — | £5.8M | 7 | £482k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.35–0.55× sales£2.1M£3.2M
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.