What a buyer sees
WILFRED SCRUTON LIMITED
Repair of machinery · Nr.Driffield · 00496990
65staff · FY2025
75years trading
—oldest owner on file
£12kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£30Mfor 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
Staff65
202365 → 652025
Cash at bank£12k
2023£12k → £12k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£468,585in the middle half
£86,433£261,100£654,906
Debtor daysdays18below almost all
204187
Creditor daysdays84
113376
Stock daysdays124in the top quarter
1177134
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
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 124 against 77 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.
- 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
- 75 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 18 against 41 for the middle of 44 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 70since 1994
- 56since 2009
- 61since 2010
- 56since 2010
- 37since 2016
- 48since 2024
- 80
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 2026-09-10 | £30M | 65 | £12k |
| 2023-12-31 | — | £34M | 65 | £12k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£12M£27M
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.