What a buyer sees
BRYDEN WOOD TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
Architectural activities · Ashford · 05750083
153staff · FY2023
20years trading
63oldest owner on file
£6.2Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£22Mfor 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
Staff153
2021162 → 1532023
Cash at bank£6.2M
2021£5.0M → £6.2M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£144,901in the middle half
£81,459£113,842£195,276
Debtor daysdays69in the middle half
5074118
Creditor daysdays13
81533
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
730102
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 41 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 2
- 20 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.
What the register says
Owners
- 61since 2016
- 63since 2016
Directors
- since 2006
- 61since 2006
- 50since 2016
- 50since 2016
- 57since 2016
- 61since 2016
- 52since 2016
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-03-31 | £22M | 153 | £6.2M |
| 2022-03-31 | £18M | 153 | £6.1M |
| 2021-03-31 | £18M | 162 | £5.0M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.6–1.5× sales£13M£33M
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.