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SENSIENT HOLDINGS UK

#01322325 · Active · Incorporated 1977-07-20 (48y 10m) · Last filing 2025-12-01 (5mo ago)
Consumer Staples · SIC 10390 · C Manufacturing · Full accounts

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Confirmation statement due

2026-10-05 (in 5mo)

Last made up 2025-09-21

Watchouts

None on the register

Cash

—

Latest balance sheet

Net assets

£28M

Equity attributable

Employees

—

Average over period

Profit before tax

—

Period ending 2024-12-31

Name history

Renamed 3 times since incorporation

  1. SENSIENT HOLDINGS UK 2005-12-21 → present
  2. SENSIENT TECHNOLOGIES (UK) LIMITED 2001-05-17 → 2005-12-21
  3. UNIVERSAL FOODS (UK) LIMITED 1991-08-09 → 2001-05-17
  4. UNIVERSAL FLAVORS (U.K.) LIMITED 1977-07-20 → 1991-08-09

Accounts

2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31

Metric Trend 2023-12-312024-12-31
Turnover ——
Operating profit -£2,213,232-£338,720
Profit before tax ——
Net profit -£1,896,672-£34,938
Cash ——
Total assets less current liabilities —£36,573,362
Net assets —£27,550,329
Equity —£27,550,329
Average employees ——
Wages ——

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 2023-12-312024-12-31
Return on capital employed —-0.9%
Interest cover -7.09x-0.74x

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
Ernst & Young LLP
Audit opinion
Unqualified (clean)
Going concern
Affirmed

“Sensient Technologies Corporation (the company's ultimate parent undertaking) will provide continuing financial support for a period of 12 months from the date of approving the financial statements of the company for the year ended 31 December 2024.”

Group structure

  1. SENSIENT HOLDINGS UK · parent
    1. Sensient Flavors Limited 100% · Great Britain · Manufacture and sale of flavouring ingredients for the food industry
    2. Sensient Colors U.K. Limited 100% · Great Britain · Manufacture and sale of colours
    3. Sensient Technologies Limited 100% · Great Britain · Holds loan notes
    4. Sensient Flavors Belgium N.V. 100% · Belgium · Manufacture and sale of flavouring ingredients for the food industry
    5. Pointing Holdings Limited 100% · Great Britain · Holding company
    6. Pointing International Limited 100% · Great Britain · Intermediate holding company
    7. Pointing Color Inc 100% · USA · Intermediate holding company
    8. Sensient Technologies South Africa Pty Ltd 100% · South Africa · Manufacture and sale of colours

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

People

2 active · 16 resigned

Name Role Appointed Born Nationality
HENSGEN, Patrick Director 2022-05-23 May 1986 American
WATSON, Leroy Clark Director 2011-10-01 May 1973 British
Show 16 resigned officers
Name Role Appointed Resigned
GRAVITAS COMPANY SECRETARIAL SERVICES LIMITED Corporate Secretary — 2014-06-25
BOND, Peter Thomson Director 2001-05-25 2001-08-03
CONNERS, Bradley Michael Director 2011-10-01 2020-03-09
CUNDIFF, Susan Kay Director 1993-04-14 1994-05-11
ELGAR, John Norton Director — 2001-05-25
FOELL, Darrell William Director 1993-04-14 1998-09-29
HAMMOND, John Lester Director 1999-04-16 1999-04-21
HIBNER, Geoffrey John Director — 1993-04-14
HOBBS, Richard Floyd Director 1999-04-16 1999-04-21
LAWLOR, Christopher L Director 2001-08-28 2005-04-08
MAKAL, Jeffrey Thomas Director 2005-04-08 2011-10-01
O'REILLY, Terrence Michael Director — 1993-04-14
OSBORN, Guy Asa Director — 1993-04-14
PLAUTZ, David Jon Director 2020-03-09 2022-05-23
RAYMONDS, Stephen Charles Director 1993-04-14 1998-04-06
ROLFS, Stephen John Director 1998-04-06 2011-10-01

Ownership

Persons with significant control

Name Kind Nature of control Notified Status
Sensient Technologies Corporation Corporate entity Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors 2016-04-06 Active

Filing timeline

Last 20 of 219 total filings

Date Type Category Description
2025-12-01 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2025-10-09 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2025-01-06 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2024-10-24 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2023-12-13 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2023-10-03 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2023-09-22 AP01 officers Appoint person director company with name date PDF
2023-09-22 TM01 officers Termination director company with name termination date PDF
2023-01-06 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2022-11-03 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2021-11-25 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2021-10-14 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2021-01-10 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2020-11-03 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2020-03-18 TM01 officers Termination director company with name termination date PDF
2020-03-18 AP01 officers Appoint person director company with name date PDF
2020-01-14 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2019-09-25 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2019-01-07 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2018-09-21 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF

Public-record activity

Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months

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.

Year-on-year

FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31

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

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