What a buyer sees
D H H TIMBER PRODUCTS LIMITED
Sawmilling and planing of wood · 02377214
17staff · FY2025
37years trading
—oldest owner on file
£12kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£24Mfor 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
Staff17
202122 → 172025
Cash at bank£12k
2021£11k → £12k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£1,396,600above almost all
£138,710£230,370£499,190
Debtor daysdays72in the top quarter
174876
Creditor daysdays40
142845
Stock daysdays121above almost all
2365101
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 5
- The last accounts went in 12 months after year endThe allowance is nine. A buyer reads a late filing as a question about the finance function rather than about the trading.
- Headcount fell from 21 to 17A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 72 against 48 for the middle of 31 comparable companies. That gap is working capital a buyer has to fund on day one, and it comes off the price.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 120 against 65 for the middle of 32 comparable companies. That gap is working capital a buyer has to fund on day one, and it comes off the price.
- 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 2
- 37 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 1,396,600 against 230,370 for the middle of 30 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- since 1998
- 68since 2010
- 51since 2010
- 63since 2022
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-31 | 2026-09-04 | £24M | 17 | £12k |
| 2023-08-31 | — | £25M | 21 | £1.6M |
| 2022-08-31 | — | £29M | 24 | £12k |
| 2021-08-31 | — | £23M | 22 | £11k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£9.5M£21M
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.