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What a buyer sees

ASH & LACY BUILDING SYSTEMS LIMITED

Manufacture of metal structures and parts of structures · Smethwick · 00149058

125staff · FY2022
109years trading
—oldest owner on file
£120kcash at bank

Your turnover is on public record

filed
£41Mfor the year to 2022

Unusual at this size, and it works in your favour: a buyer is reading your number rather than guessing at one.

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employee£330,712above almost all
£330,712
£102,718£170,458£318,709
Debtor daysdays69in the middle half
69
276084
Creditor daysdays53
53
184368
Stock daysdays57in the top quarter
57
73199

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

  • The newest accounts on file are 44 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.
  • Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 57 against 31 for the middle of 68 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

  • 109 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 330,712 against 170,458 for the middle of 82 comparable companies.

What the register says

Owners

Nobody recorded with significant control.

Directors

  • 54since 1999
  • 56since 2011
  • 64since 2015
  • 57since 2022
  • 25since 2025
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2022-12-31£41M125£120k

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.4–0.9× sales
£17M
£37M

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.

Prepared by Qapital from public records, against 105,750 companies that did publish a turnover. No figure here was supplied by the company and none of it is advice. What it is missing is everything that actually sets a price: profitability, contracts, customer concentration, and whoever would run it next.

Tell us the rest

Your turnover is on file, but the things that set a price are not: margin, customer concentration, who would run it next. Tell us where you are and we will read it properly.

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