What a buyer sees
BACKER HEATROD LIMITED
Manufacture of other electrical equipment · Bolton · 00766637
75staff · FY2025
63years trading
—oldest owner on file
£17kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£9.8Mfor 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
Staff75
202055 → 752025
Cash at bank£17k
2020£373k → £17k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£130,356in the middle half
£111,296£152,547£303,795
Debtor daysdays64in the middle half
306498
Creditor daysdays30
82252
Stock daysdays79in the middle half
1580188
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
- 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 3
- 63 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 67 to 75Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 71since 2004
- 54since 2013
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 2026-06-27 | £9.8M | 75 | £17k |
| 2023-12-31 | — | £7.7M | 67 | £62k |
| 2022-12-31 | — | £6.6M | 58 | £36k |
| 2021-12-31 | — | £6.6M | 53 | £52k |
| 2020-12-31 | — | not filed | 55 | £373k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£3.9M£8.8M
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.