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Next accounts due

2026-09-30 (in 4mo)

Last filed for 2024-12-31

Confirmation statement due

2026-12-07 (in 7mo)

Last made up 2025-11-23

Watchouts

1 item

Cash

£3M

-8.2% vs 2023

Net assets

£55M

+4.1% vs 2023

Employees

95

+9.2% vs 2023

Profit before tax

£11M

-4.2% vs 2023

Watchouts

Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating

Accounts

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

Metric Trend 2023-12-312024-12-31
Turnover £76,537,000£86,500,000
Operating profit £11,480,000£10,881,000
Profit before tax £11,622,000£11,130,000
Net profit £13,269,000£14,164,000
Cash £3,627,000£3,330,000
Total assets less current liabilities £53,979,000£55,907,000
Net assets £53,323,000£55,487,000
Equity £53,323,000£55,487,000
Average employees 8795
Wages £5,727,000£5,530,000

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 2023-12-312024-12-31
Operating margin 15.0%12.6%
Net margin 17.3%16.4%
Return on capital employed 21.3%19.5%
Gearing (liabilities / total assets) 26.3%26.2%
Current ratio 2.22x2.30x
Interest cover 225.10x473.09x

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 101
Reporting scope
Standalone (parent only)
Auditor
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Audit opinion
Unqualified (clean)
Going concern
Material uncertainty disclosed

“Since the year end, the ultimate shareholders of the Company's intermediate parent, Stada Arzneimittel AG (Stada) have agreed the sale of a majority stake in Stada to CapVest Partners LLP (CapVest). The transaction is expected to complete in early 2026. The director understands the intentions of CapVest are to continue to support Stada and its subsidiaries with its strategy and growth ambitions and the transaction would not change current plans for the Company. Therefore, the director has a reasonable expectation that the Company will have adequate resources to continue in operational existence for at least 12 months from the date of approval of the financial statements. The director believes it is therefore appropriate to continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing these financial statements. However the director does not have full knowledge of CapVest's future intentions and funding plans in relation to the Company. These conditions indicate the existence of a material uncertainty which may cast significant doubt about the Company's ability to continue as a going concern. The financial statements do not include the adjustments that would result if the Company were unable to continue as a going concern.”

Group structure

  1. BRITANNIA PHARMACEUTICALS LIMITED · parent
    1. CNRD 2002 Limited 0.33% · United Kingdom

Significant events

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

People

1 active · 32 resigned

Name Role Appointed Born Nationality
WOOD, Robert Kenneth Director 2016-04-05 Dec 1976 British
Show 32 resigned officers
Name Role Appointed Resigned
FORSHAW, John Robert Secretary 2006-03-22 2007-09-20
GALLEHAWK, Andrew Ralph Secretary 2019-10-01 2020-06-29
GORE-STRACHAN, Evelyn Secretary 2013-07-11 2015-06-29
HANLON, James Anthony Secretary 2007-09-20 2010-05-17
PEFFERS, Douglas Watson Secretary 2004-04-29 2006-03-22
PEFFERS, Douglas Watson Secretary 1992-10-21
ROBINSON, Elizabeth Secretary 2016-04-05 2019-10-01
SHEPARD, John Anthony Secretary 1992-10-21 2004-04-29
WRIGHT, Philip John Secretary 2010-05-17 2013-07-11
BALLARD, Peter Gavin Director 2008-08-13 2012-05-03
DAVIES, David Keith Director 2007-09-20
DENGLER, Christoph Director 2015-06-09 2021-02-22
DUCKWORTH, Alexander James Director 2001-10-10 2007-09-20
DUCKWORTH, Peter Edgar Director 2007-09-20
GERARD, William Wilson Director 2007-09-20
GRANT, Victoria Director 2022-09-07 2022-10-03
HANLON, James Anthony Director 2007-09-20 2010-05-17
HASLAM, David Director 2009-02-12 2010-05-17
HASLAM, David Nicholas Director 2000-10-19 2007-09-20
HUTCHINSON, David John Mckenzie Director 2006-09-14 2007-09-20
JACKSON-DOOLEY, Brian Maxwell Director 1994-12-21 2005-12-31
JARVIS, Helen Ann Director 2006-09-14 2007-09-20
JEBING, Dieter Director 2012-05-03 2016-04-05
NOBLE, Maxwell Edward Paul Director 2007-09-20
O'RIORDAN, Rory Walter Director 2007-09-20 2010-05-17
PEFFERS, Douglas Watson Director 2007-09-20
PRICE, Ian Roger Director 2004-04-29 2007-09-20
SCARLETT-SMITH, Roger Lidderdale Director 2021-02-22 2022-09-07
SLEGERS, Luc Maurice Godelieva Director 2007-09-20 2015-06-29
TIERNEY, Daniel Peter Nicholas Director 2007-09-20
WOODCOCK, Derek Alan Director 1994-12-21 2007-09-20
WRIGHT, Philip John Director 2008-08-13 2010-05-17

Ownership

Persons with significant control

Name Kind Nature of control Notified Status
Genus Pharmaceuticals Holdings Limited Corporate entity Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors 2016-04-06 Active

Filing timeline

Last 20 of 188 total filings

Date Type Category Description
2025-12-01 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2025-10-01 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2025-08-07 MR01 mortgage Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date PDF
2025-05-08 MR01 mortgage Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date PDF
2025-01-15 MR01 mortgage Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date PDF
2024-11-27 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2024-08-19 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2024-08-01 MR01 mortgage Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date PDF
2023-11-23 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2023-10-10 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2023-02-21 MR01 mortgage Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date PDF
2022-11-28 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2022-11-24 AAMD accounts Accounts amended with accounts type full
2022-11-03 MR01 mortgage Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date PDF
2022-10-03 TM01 officers Termination director company with name termination date PDF
2022-09-07 AP01 officers Appoint person director company with name date PDF
2022-09-07 TM01 officers Termination director company with name termination date PDF
2022-08-05 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2022-01-04 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2021-10-12 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full

Public-record activity

Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months

Filings
4

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

Official Companies House page