What a buyer sees
MCDONALD SCAFFOLDING (SERVICES) LIMITED
Scaffold erection · Ross-Shire · SC094717
70staff · FY2025
41years trading
—oldest owner on file
£773kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£8.2Mfor 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
Staff70
202182 → 702025
Cash at bank£773k
2021£685k → £773k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£117,731in the middle half
£41,722£109,162£460,236
Debtor daysdays76in the middle half
2056108
Creditor daysdays10
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
- Headcount fell from 86 to 70A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- 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
- 41 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 1 against 17 for the middle of 400 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 41since 2021
- since 2021
- 66
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-30 | 2026-08-29 | £8.2M | 70 | £773k |
| 2023-11-30 | — | £7.3M | 86 | £1.1M |
| 2022-11-30 | — | £6.9M | 83 | £954k |
| 2021-11-30 | — | £5.8M | 82 | £685k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.7× sales£3.3M£5.8M
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.