What a buyer sees
ARCHWOOD LIMITED
Sawmilling and planing of wood · Wrexham · 02037421
102staff · FY2025
40years trading
—oldest owner on file
£234kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£24Mfor 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
Staff102
2022116 → 1022025
Cash at bank£234k
2022£163k → £234k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£239,294in the middle half
£138,710£230,370£499,190
Debtor daysdays62in the top quarter
174876
Creditor daysdays26
142845
Stock daysdays95in the top quarter
2365101
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 3
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 62 against 48 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.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 95 against 65 for the middle of 32 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
- 40 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
- 84since 2010
- 48since 2012
- 58since 2021
- since 2023
- 41since 2024
- 40since 2025
- 44since 2025
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-30 | 2026-06-30 | £24M | 102 | £234k |
| 2023-09-30 | — | £24M | 109 | £155k |
| 2022-10-01 | — | £25M | 116 | £163k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£9.8M£22M
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.