What a buyer sees
CONNOLLY SCAFFOLDING LIMITED
Scaffold erection · Salford · 04426746
137staff · FY2024
24years trading
—oldest owner on file
£8kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£7.0Mfor 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
Staff137
2022169 → 1372024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£51,359in the bottom quarter
£41,722£109,162£460,236
Debtor daysdays65in the middle half
2056108
Creditor daysdays26
101740
Stock daysdays1below almost all
51785
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 28 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
- 24 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 0 against 17 for the middle of 400 comparable companies.
- A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 56since 2016
- 57since 2016
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-30 | £7.0M | 137 | £8k |
| 2023-04-30 | £6.7M | 143 | — |
| 2022-04-30 | £5.4M | 169 | — |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.7× sales£2.8M£4.9M
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.