What a buyer sees
K ROUSE CIVIL ENGINEERS LIMITED
Construction of roads and motorways · Leeds · 03289662
98staff · FY2023
30years trading
59oldest owner on file
£231kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£17Mfor 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
Staff98
2021123 → 982023
Cash at bank£231k
2021£688k → £231k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£174,997in the middle half
£146,959£305,437£486,183
Debtor daysdays39in the middle half
134299
Creditor daysdays17
234076
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
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 32 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
- 30 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
- 59since 2016
Directors
- 59since 1996
- since 1997
- 49since 2019
- 37since 2022
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £17M | 98 | £231k |
| 2022-12-31 | £15M | 103 | £312k |
| 2021-12-31 | £21M | 123 | £688k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£6.9M£15M
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.