What a buyer sees
J. ANDERSON & SON LIMITED
Construction of utility projects for fluids · Mexborough · 05177049
37staff · FY2025
22years trading
—oldest owner on file
£2.8Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£18Mfor 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
Staff37
202124 → 372025
Cash at bank£2.8M
2021£323k → £2.8M2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£486,516in the middle half
£70,889£394,964£1,254,166
Debtor daysdays25in the bottom quarter
164391
Creditor daysdays30
133369
Stock daysdays13in the middle half
622228
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 1
- 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 3
- 22 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 32 to 37Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 25 against 43 for the middle of 684 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 94since 2004
- 68since 2004
- since 2018
- 35since 2018
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-31 | 2026-07-30 | £18M | 37 | £2.8M |
| 2023-10-31 | — | not filed | 32 | £1.7M |
| 2022-10-31 | — | not filed | 26 | £1.1M |
| 2021-10-31 | — | not filed | 24 | £323k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£7.2M£16M
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.