What a buyer sees
KELSTON SPARKES CONTRACTORS LIMITED
Other specialised construction activities n.e.c. · Bristol · 01157216
43staff · FY2025
52years trading
—oldest owner on file
£1kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£40Mfor 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
Staff43
202137 → 432025
Cash at bank£1k
2021£771k → £1k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£921,056in the top quarter
£65,720£314,286£1,205,783
Debtor daysdays58in the middle half
185593
Creditor daysdays38
123465
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
722115
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 1
- 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
- 52 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 921,056 against 314,286 for the middle of 161 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- since 1997
- 73since 2007
- 45since 2020
- 32since 2022
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 2026-09-02 | £40M | 43 | £1k |
| 2023-12-31 | — | £21M | 47 | £10k |
| 2022-12-31 | — | £19M | 0 | £1.0M |
| 2021-12-31 | — | £17M | 37 | £771k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.7× sales£16M£28M
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.