What a buyer sees
C.R. REYNOLDS LIMITED
Construction of roads and motorways · Hessle · 01772107
57staff · FY2025
43years trading
68oldest owner on file
£11Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£39Mfor 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
Staff57
202151 → 572025
Cash at bank£11M
2021£5.3M → £11M2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£687,174above almost all
£146,959£305,437£486,183
Debtor daysdays16in the bottom quarter
134299
Creditor daysdays75
234076
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
51785
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 4
- 43 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 50 to 57Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 687,174 against 305,437 for the middle of 30 comparable companies.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 16 against 42 for the middle of 65 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 68since 2016
Directors
- 58since 2006
- 48since 2021
- 38since 2021
- 35since 2021
- 68
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-30 | 2026-07-01 | £39M | 57 | £11M |
| 2023-09-30 | — | £33M | 50 | £6.9M |
| 2022-09-30 | — | £30M | 49 | £5.3M |
| 2021-09-30 | — | £31M | 51 | £5.3M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£16M£35M
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.