What a buyer sees
CLARET CIVIL ENGINEERING LIMITED
Construction of water projects · Manchester · 02988261
104staff · FY2023
32years trading
—oldest owner on file
£3.9Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£18Mfor 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
Staff104
202275 → 1042023
Cash at bank£3.9M
2022£2.9M → £3.9M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£176,824in the middle half
£111,818£241,418£627,020
Debtor daysdays20in the bottom quarter
154483
Creditor daysdays32
163564
Stock daysdays0below 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 3
- The newest accounts on file are 39 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 4
- 32 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 75 to 104Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 20 against 44 for the middle of 813 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 0 against 17 for the middle of 400 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 62since 1994
- 40since 2025
- 46since 2025
- 59since 2025
- 43since 2025
- 40since 2026
- 52since 2026
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-05-31 | £18M | 104 | £3.9M |
| 2022-05-31 | £14M | 75 | £2.9M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£7.4M£17M
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.