What a buyer sees
KNIGHT HARWOOD LIMITED
Other building completion and finishing · London · 05633442
120staff · FY2021
21years trading
—oldest owner on file
£17Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£82Mfor the year to 2021
Unusual at this size, and it works in your favour: a buyer is reading your number rather than guessing at one.
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£685,088in the top quarter
£118,630£231,385£685,088
Debtor daysdays35in the middle half
113991
Creditor daysdays35
163663
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
522265
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 56 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 2
- 21 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 685,088 against 231,385 for the middle of 31 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 57since 2007
- 42since 2017
- 50since 2023
- 36since 2024
- 42since 2025
- 41since 2025
- 42since 2025
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-12-31 | £82M | 120 | £17M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.7× sales£33M£58M
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.