MAST GROUP LIMITED

1. MAST GROUP LIMITED 1994-11-14 → present
2. MAST LABORATORIES LIMITED 1959-07-10 → 1994-11-14

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

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.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

Grant Thornton UK LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“After reviewing the forecasts and projections, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the company and group have adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Thus they continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.”

Group structure

1. MAST GROUP LIMITED · parent
   1. Mast Diagnostics Limited 100% · Dormant
   2. Mast International Limited 100% · Dormant
   3. Mast Diagnostic SARL 100% · France · Medical diagnostics
   4. Mast Diagnostica GmbH 77.5% · Germany · Medical Diagnostics
   5. Mercury Investments (UK) Limited 100% · Dormant
   6. Samuel Skelly Limited 100% · Printing

Significant events

• “Following year end Mast Group have acquired a further 12.5% of the Shares of Mast Diagnostica GmbH paid from operating cash reserves.”
• “Mast Group also acquired 100% of the shares of Davies Diagnostics (Pty) Limited paid from operating cash reserves.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

6

last 12 months

Capital events

1

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

last 12 months

Officers resigned

0

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +6.3%

  £53,063,038 → £56,415,595

• Cash

  -4%

  £33,238,202 → £31,910,048

• Net assets

  +4%

  £74,290,814 → £77,292,586

• Employees

  +2.5%

  243 → 249

• Operating profit

  +7.7%

  £11,670,494 → £12,568,197

• Profit before tax

  +15.9%

  £12,368,313 → £14,334,915

• Wages

  +7.6%

  £9,564,500 → £10,287,131

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers