What a buyer sees
SOUTHERN DOORS & CUBICLES LIMITED
Manufacture of other builders' carpentry and joinery · Great Bridge West Bromwich · 04112088
28staff · FY2024
26years trading
—oldest owner on file
£1.0Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£7.5Mfor the year to 2024
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
Staff28
202225 → 282024
Cash at bank£1.0M
2022£864k → £1.0M2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£268,886in the top quarter
£50,783£139,179£334,949
Debtor daysdays35in the bottom quarter
225592
Creditor daysdays36
163057
Stock daysdays24in the middle half
112954
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 31 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 3
- 26 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 268,886 against 139,179 for the middle of 41 comparable companies.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 35 against 55 for the middle of 905 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 56since 2000
- since 2019
- 40since 2023
- 38since 2023
- 30since 2024
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-01-31 | £7.5M | 28 | £1.0M |
| 2023-01-31 | £9.5M | 30 | £1.5M |
| 2022-01-31 | £8.3M | 25 | £864k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£3.0M£6.8M
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.