What a buyer sees
KNOTT-AVONRIDE LIMITED
Manufacture of other transport equipment n.e.c. · Burton Upon Trent · 01691074
105staff · FY2025
43years trading
—oldest owner on file
£434kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£34Mfor 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
Staff105
2023106 → 1052025
Cash at bank£434k
2023£203k → £434k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£321,756in the top quarter
£88,871£162,513£362,127
Debtor daysdays53in the middle half
265687
Creditor daysdays18
143363
Stock daysdays75in the top quarter
1245115
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
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 75 against 45 for the middle of 2,028 comparable companies. That gap is working capital a buyer has to fund on day one, and it comes off the price.
- 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
- 43 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 321,756 against 162,513 for the middle of 2,152 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 59since 1998
- 57since 2023
- since 2024
- 84
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 2026-09-15 | £34M | 105 | £434k |
| 2023-12-31 | — | £27M | 106 | £203k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£14M£30M
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.