What a buyer sees
B. & A. ENGINEERING COMPANY LIMITED(THE)
Manufacture of other machine tools · St Leonards On Sea · 00279276
4staff · FY2025
93years trading
—oldest owner on file
£20kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£675kfor 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
Staff4
20217 → 42025
Cash at bank£20k
2021£4k → £20k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£168,850in the top quarter
£19,570£79,800£652,860
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
1552127
Creditor daysdays62
1033119
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
944216
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 12 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 7 to 4A 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 2
- 93 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 168,850 against 79,800 for the middle of 697 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
No current directors loaded.
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-30 | 2026-07-15 | £675k | 4 | £20k |
| 2023-06-30 | — | £446k | 7 | £5k |
| 2022-06-30 | — | £418k | 7 | £5k |
| 2021-06-30 | — | £370k | 7 | £4k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£270k£610k
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.