What a buyer sees
AIR CONDITIONING SALES UK LIMITED
Installation of industrial machinery and equipment · Shotts · SC225243
5staff · FY2024
25years trading
58oldest owner on file
£29kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£937kfor 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
Staff5
20225 → 52024
Cash at bank£29k
2022£67k → £29k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£187,440in the middle half
£58,419£229,755£589,619
Debtor daysdays78in the middle half
2759117
Creditor daysdays43
133576
Stock daysdays98in the top quarter
1045104
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.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 98 against 45 for the middle of 46 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
- 25 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
- 58since 2016
- 56since 2016
Directors
- since 2001
- 58since 2001
- 30since 2020
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £937k | 5 | £29k |
| 2023-03-31 | £1.0M | 5 | £10k |
| 2022-03-31 | £1.0M | 5 | £67k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£370k£840k
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.