What a buyer sees
BRIARWOOD PRODUCTS LIMITED
Roofing activities · Highbridge · 02900287
35staff · FY2023
32years trading
—oldest owner on file
£32kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£15Mfor 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
Staff35
2021147 → 352023
Cash at bank£32k
2021£836k → £32k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£428,657in the middle half
£72,519£255,086£712,512
Debtor daysdays79in the top quarter
154392
Creditor daysdays67
183770
Stock daysdays152above almost all
61887
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 6
- The newest accounts on file are 32 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- One director on the registerA buyer's first question about a company run by one person is what happens to it if that person stops. It is usually the first thing priced.
- Headcount fell from 147 to 35A 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 79 against 43 for the middle of 58 comparable companies. That gap is working capital a buyer has to fund on day one, and it comes off the price.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 152 against 18 for the middle of 36 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
- 32 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
- 38since 2017
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £15M | 35 | £32k |
| 2021-12-31 | £25M | 147 | £836k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.7× sales£6.0M£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.