What a buyer sees
BRIDGE ALUMINIUM LIMITED
Casting of light metals · Leicester · 09907672
221staff · FY2023
11years trading
—oldest owner on file
£1.2Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£26Mfor 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
Staff221
202189 → 2212023
Cash at bank£1.2M
2021£32k → £1.2M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£115,675in the bottom quarter
£88,871£162,513£362,127
Debtor daysdays43in the middle half
265687
Creditor daysdays30
143363
Stock daysdays41in the middle half
1245115
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
- The newest accounts on file are 34 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- 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
- Headcount grew from 120 to 221Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 51since 2019
- 48since 2019
- 49since 2020
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-10-31 | £26M | 221 | £1.2M |
| 2022-10-31 | £15M | 120 | £419k |
| 2021-10-31 | £9.7M | 89 | £32k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£10M£23M
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.