MERCK LIFE SCIENCE UK LIMITED

1. MERCK LIFE SCIENCE UK LIMITED 2020-06-25 → present
2. MERCK CHEMICALS LTD 2002-06-28 → 2020-06-25
3. BDH LIMITED 1986-03-06 → 2002-06-28
4. B D H CHEMICALS LIMITED 1960-05-25 → 1986-03-06

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

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

Deloitte LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis which the directors consider to be appropriate for the following reasons. The Directors have prepared cash flow forecasts covering at least 12 months from the date of signing these financial statements. The company will have sufficient funds through its central cash pooling account to meet its liabilities as they fall due for that period. In preparing these forecasts, they have taken a prudent approach, in which the average margin for the past three years has been used, where this is lower than the margin achieved for the last 12 months. They also noted that the company has a positive net assets and positive net current assets position as at the balance sheet date. Consequently, the directors are confident that the Company will have sufficient funds to continue to meet its liabilities as they fall due for at least 12 months from the date of approval of the financial statements and therefore have prepared the financial statements on a going concern basis.”

Group structure

1. MERCK LIFE SCIENCE UK LIMITED · parent
   1. Merck Performance Materials Limited 100% · United Kingdom · marketing and selling of Surface Solutions products to third-party customers and the provision of R&D services to associated companies.

Significant events

• “The Company's Irish Branch ceased production of its ProSep product range in October 2024. The discontinuation of this product line is due to decline in demand of this legacy product as customers transition to next generation resins. Sales of remaining stocks of the ProSep products against terminal orders from customers will continue into the first part of 2025. It is the intention of the Company to close down the Branch entirely once all terminal orders have been fulfilled.”

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

Filings

2

last 12 months

Capital events

0

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

  -6.6%

  £235,853,000 → £220,400,000

• Cash

  -31.5%

  £127,000 → £87,000

• Net assets

  -8%

  £82,209,000 → £75,618,000

• Employees

  -6.3%

  336 → 315

• Operating profit

  -50.1%

  £22,999,000 → £11,484,000

• Profit before tax

  -41.8%

  £22,801,000 → £13,276,000

• Wages

  +6.2%

  £20,923,000 → £22,224,000

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