What a buyer sees
JAMES LAING & SONS LIMITED
Electrical installation · Inverurie · SC148011
87staff · FY2025
33years trading
48oldest owner on file
£3.4Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£12Mfor 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
Staff87
202290 → 872025
Cash at bank£3.4M
2022£2.5M → £3.4M2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£140,651in the bottom quarter
£102,858£198,982£467,730
Debtor daysdays32in the middle half
184694
Creditor daysdays28
214071
Stock daysdays27in the middle half
52349
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 3
- The last accounts went in 10 months after year endThe allowance is nine. A buyer reads a late filing as a question about the finance function rather than about the trading.
- Headcount fell from 100 to 87A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- 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 1
- 33 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
- 48since 2021
- 41since 2021
Directors
- 50since 2016
- 41since 2016
- 48since 2016
- 44since 2021
- 37since 2021
- 36since 2021
- 51since 2022
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-31 | 2026-07-10 | £12M | 87 | £3.4M |
| 2023-08-31 | — | £15M | 100 | £2.5M |
| 2022-08-31 | — | £14M | 90 | £2.5M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.7× sales£4.9M£8.6M
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.