What a buyer sees
D. BROWN (BUILDING CONTRACTORS) LIMITED
Construction of commercial buildings · Spalding · 01712405
48staff · FY2025
43years trading
—oldest owner on file
£0kcash 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
Staff48
202149 → 482025
Cash at bank£0k
2021£0k → £0k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£506,585in the middle half
£123,661£605,313£1,372,757
Debtor daysdays53in the top quarter
173971
Creditor daysdays50
153371
Stock daysdays25in the middle half
519135
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 4
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- Headcount fell from 58 to 48A 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 53 against 39 for the middle of 102 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 1
- 43 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
- 37since 2020
- 51since 2024
- 62since 2025
- 56since 2025
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-30 | 2026-07-31 | £24M | 48 | £0k |
| 2023-05-31 | — | £24M | 58 | £68k |
| 2022-05-31 | — | £22M | 57 | £374k |
| 2021-05-31 | — | not filed | 49 | £0k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.2–0.45× sales£4.9M£11M
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.