What a buyer sees
BRIDGEND ACCIDENT REPAIR CENTRE LIMITED
Maintenance and repair of motor vehicles · Kilwinning · SC098476
35staff · FY2024
40years trading
—oldest owner on file
£758kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£3.6Mfor the year to 2024
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
202231 → 352024
Cash at bank£758k
2022£151k → £758k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£104,269in the middle half
£50,702£87,460£301,306
Debtor daysdays26in the middle half
102670
Creditor daysdays17
102061
Stock daysdays4below almost all
52094
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
- The newest accounts on file are 29 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.
- 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
- 40 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 4 against 20 for the middle of 143 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- since 2017
- 52since 2023
- 51since 2023
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £3.6M | 35 | £758k |
| 2023-03-31 | £3.5M | 38 | £263k |
| 2022-03-31 | £2.9M | 31 | £151k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£1.5M£3.3M
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.