What a buyer sees
WOODLAND COMMERCIAL LIMITED
Other specialised construction activities n.e.c. · Crawley · 02867824
42staff · FY2025
33years trading
63oldest owner on file
£2.3Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£16Mfor 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
Staff42
202132 → 422025
Cash at bank£2.3M
2021£1.4M → £2.3M2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£372,512in the middle half
£65,720£314,286£1,205,783
Debtor daysdays91in the top quarter
185593
Creditor daysdays29
123465
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
722115
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
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 91 against 55 for the middle of 134 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
- 33 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.
What the register says
Owners
- 57since 2016
- 63since 2016
Directors
- since 1993
- 57since 1993
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-31 | 2026-07-31 | £16M | 42 | £2.3M |
| 2023-10-31 | — | £16M | 39 | £2.0M |
| 2022-10-31 | — | not filed | 32 | £520k |
| 2021-10-31 | — | not filed | 32 | £1.4M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.7× sales£6.3M£11M
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.