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What a buyer sees

BRISTOL BUILDERS SUPPLIES LIMITED

Wholesale of hardware, plumbing and heating equipment and supplies · Bristol · 00277372

96staff · FY2023
93years trading
50oldest owner on file
£49kcash at bank

Your turnover is on public record

filed
£31Mfor 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

Staff96
202174 → 962023
Cash at bank£49k
2021£1k → £49k2023

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employee£325,395in the middle half
£325,395
£164,198£269,265£395,137
Debtor daysdays66in the middle half
66
245387
Creditor daysdays37
37
143760
Stock daysdays55in the middle half
55
2762132

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 32 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

  • 93 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
  • Headcount grew from 82 to 96Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.

What the register says

Owners

  • 50since 2017

Directors

  • 50since 2008
  • 50since 2015
  • 38since 2025
  • 42since 2025
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2023-12-31£31M96£49k
2022-12-31£25M82£61k
2021-12-31£14M74£1k

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.35–0.55× sales
£11M
£17M

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.

Prepared by Qapital from public records, against 105,750 companies that did publish a turnover. No figure here was supplied by the company and none of it is advice. What it is missing is everything that actually sets a price: profitability, contracts, customer concentration, and whoever would run it next.

Tell us the rest

Your turnover is on file, but the things that set a price are not: margin, customer concentration, who would run it next. Tell us where you are and we will read it properly.

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