What a buyer sees
S W BRUCE & COMPANY LIMITED
Other building completion and finishing · London · 03529448
78staff · FY2024
28years trading
—oldest owner on file
£564kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£31Mfor 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
Staff78
20213 → 782024
Cash at bank£564k
2021£604k → £564k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£393,399in the middle half
£118,630£231,385£685,088
Debtor daysdays39in the middle half
113991
Creditor daysdays43
163663
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
522265
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 3
- The newest accounts on file are 26 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- 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
- 28 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 61since 1998
- 58since 1998
- since 1998
- 58since 2023
- 54since 2023
- 44since 2023
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-06-30 | £31M | 78 | £564k |
| 2023-06-30 | £28M | 77 | £934k |
| 2021-06-30 | £23M | 3 | £604k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.7× sales£12M£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.