SHANDON DIAGNOSTICS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-05-16 (this month)
Last made up 2025-05-02
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£3M
+31.1% vs 2024
Net assets
£2M
+110.5% vs 2024
Employees
221
-4.7% vs 2024
Profit before tax
-£15M
+24.2% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 5 times since incorporation
- SHANDON DIAGNOSTICS LIMITED 2019-08-23 → present
- THERMO SHANDON LIMITED 2000-11-29 → 2019-08-23
- SHANDON SCIENTIFIC LIMITED 1998-01-05 → 2000-11-29
- LIFE SCIENCES INTERNATIONAL (EUROPE) LIMITED 1993-03-01 → 1998-01-05
- SHANDON SCIENTIFIC LIMITED 1988-05-03 → 1993-03-01
- SHANDON SOUTHERN PRODUCTS LIMITED 1937-08-24 → 1988-05-03
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Health Care median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £57,064,000 | £57,080,000 | |
| Operating profit | -£16,088,000 | -£11,836,000 | |
| Profit before tax | -£19,584,000 | -£14,850,000 | |
| Net profit | -£19,702,000 | -£16,852,000 | |
| Cash | £2,194,000 | £2,876,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | -£22,749,000 | £4,169,000 | |
| Net assets | -£22,904,000 | £2,409,000 | |
| Equity | -£22,904,000 | £2,409,000 | |
| Average employees | 232 | 221 | |
| Wages | £10,745,000 | £10,949,000 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -28.2% | -20.7% | |
| Net margin | -34.5% | -29.5% | |
| Return on capital employed | 70.7% | -283.9% | |
| Current ratio | 0.38x | 0.57x | |
| Interest cover | -6.49x | -2.98x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- KPMG LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors have prepared the financial statements on the going concern basis as they do not intend to liquidate the Company or to cease its operations, and as they have concluded that the Company's financial position means that this is realistic They have also concluded that there are no material uncertainties that could have cast significant doubt over its ability to continue as a going concern for at least a year from the date of approval of the financial statements ("the going concern period").”
Group structure
- SHANDON DIAGNOSTICS LIMITED · parent
- Epredia Belgium BV 100%
- Epredia Hong Kong Limited 100%
- Epredia Hungary KFT 100%
- Epredia India Private Limited 99.9%
- Epredia Italy S.R.L. 100%
- Shandon Diagnostic Sdn Bhd. 100%
- Epredia Netherlands B.V. 100%
- Epredia Singapore Pte Ltd 100%
- Epredia Taiwan Limited 100%
Significant events
- “The E1000 Dx Digital Pathology Solution (E1000 Dx) received clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration early March 2025 and that allows the company to start selling these instruments in the USA to the clinical market.”
- “The company's immediate parent company "Epredia Holdings Limited" has agreed to irrevocable and unconditionally release and discharge the loan balance amounting to £34,591,019 and trade payables balance of £8,265,979 as capital contribution and release the company from all its present and future obligations, liabilities arising in connection with the loan and trade payables balance.”
- “The company received a loan of £2.3 million on 15 May 2025 from Epredia Holdings Limited.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 41 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KING, Christopher Allan | Director | 2022-11-10 | Nov 1970 | American |
| LYNUM, Steven | Director | 2022-08-31 | Mar 1969 | Canadian |
| WEIR, Ian | Director | 2020-11-03 | Nov 1966 | British |
Show 41 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| GREGG, Rhona | Secretary | 2015-09-10 | 2019-06-28 |
| HICKEY, Damian Joseph | Secretary | 1997-11-25 | 2004-02-18 |
| OSTLER, John Ramsdell | Secretary | — | 1997-11-25 |
| WARD, Nicola Jane | Secretary | 2004-02-18 | 2014-12-18 |
| A G SECRETARIAL LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2004-02-18 | 2009-10-31 |
| OAKWOOD CORPORATE SECRETARY LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2009-11-01 | 2019-06-28 |
| ALMOND, James Michael | Director | — | 1993-01-15 |
| ATKINSON, Richard Henry | Director | — | 1995-05-26 |
| BLAND, Francis Christopher Buchan, Sir | Director | — | 1997-03-12 |
| BROUGHAM, Peter David | Director | 1994-05-09 | 1995-09-29 |
| BUSH, Allan Edward | Director | — | 1997-12-19 |
| CAMERON, Euan Daney Ross | Director | 2018-10-31 | 2019-06-28 |
| CHANG, Roy Jae Hun | Director | 2022-09-07 | 2022-10-24 |
| COLEY, James Robert Ewen | Director | 2004-02-18 | 2012-04-18 |
| CONSTANTINE, Simon John | Director | 1995-05-26 | 1997-09-01 |
| COSGROVE, Raymond Francis, Dr | Director | — | 1993-01-29 |
| DOLPHIN, Robert John, Doctor | Director | 1994-05-09 | 1998-01-05 |
| GRAND, Emmanuel Nicolas | Director | 2019-06-28 | 2020-08-11 |
| GRANT, Lucie Mary Katja | Director | 2013-02-07 | 2019-06-28 |
| HARTMAN, Cory Whitty | Director | 2020-08-11 | 2022-11-28 |
| HERMETSCHWEILER, Ursula Erika | Director | 2019-06-28 | 2020-08-11 |
| HICKEY, Damian Joseph | Director | 1998-01-05 | 2006-12-07 |
| INCE, Nicholas | Director | 2015-09-10 | 2018-10-31 |
| JACOBSEN, Michael Allan | Director | 2022-09-07 | 2023-05-04 |
| KEY, Brian Alan, Dr | Director | — | 1997-07-04 |
| LEE, Jeremy Stephen William | Director | 1993-06-24 | 1997-11-07 |
| MADDIX, Colin | Director | 1993-05-01 | 2001-11-01 |
| MAROTTA, John Patrick | Director | 2020-08-11 | 2021-09-23 |
| MOODIE, Iain Alasdair Keith | Director | 2012-04-18 | 2013-02-07 |
| NISHIKAWA, Kotaro | Director | 2019-06-28 | 2020-08-11 |
| NORMAN, David John | Director | 2015-11-16 | 2019-06-28 |
| OATRIDGE, Nicholas James | Director | 1994-04-18 | 1997-09-12 |
| PERKINS, James Ian | Director | 2004-02-18 | 2004-12-01 |
| POST, James | Director | 2019-06-28 | 2020-08-11 |
| ROSSWAG, Christof | Director | 2019-06-28 | 2022-08-31 |
| SENIOR, Martin Russell | Director | — | 1993-08-25 |
| SMITH, Anthony Hugh | Director | 2018-11-12 | 2019-06-28 |
| SWEENEY, John | Director | 2021-09-23 | 2022-08-31 |
| WHEELER, Kevin Neil | Director | 2004-02-18 | 2015-11-16 |
| WILSON, Crawford John | Director | 1993-11-15 | 2008-03-19 |
| WRIGHT, Katie Rose | Director | 2010-12-01 | 2015-09-04 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phc Holdings Corporation | Corporate entity | Significant influence | 2021-10-14 | Active |
| Kkr & Co. Inc | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2019-06-28 | Ceased 2021-10-14 |
| Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2019-06-28 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 253 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-05-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-11-27 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2024-11-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-05-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-05-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-06-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-05-17 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-01-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-11-29 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-11-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-10-27 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-09-08 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-09-08 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-09-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-09-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-09-02 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-07-22 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2022-06-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-06-01 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.
Year-on-year
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31
-
Turnover
0%
£57,064,000 £57,080,000
-
Cash
+31.1%
£2,194,000 £2,876,000
-
Net assets
+110.5%
-£22,904,000 £2,409,000
-
Employees
-4.7%
232 221
-
Operating profit
+26.4%
-£16,088,000 -£11,836,000
-
Profit before tax
+24.2%
-£19,584,000 -£14,850,000
-
Wages
+1.9%
£10,745,000 £10,949,000
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. Periods don't have to be exactly 12 months apart — a long or short period (typical around incorporation or year-end changes) will distort the comparison. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers