PUROLITE LTD
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Next accounts due
2026-08-31 (in 3mo)
Last filed for 2024-11-30
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-24 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-07-10
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£45M
+1,946% vs 2023
Net assets
£114M
-29.3% vs 2023
Employees
255
+2% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£80M
+65.4% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- PUROLITE LTD 2012-12-21 → present
- PUROLITE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED 1984-12-15 → 2012-12-21
- WISEBLEND LIMITED 1984-08-15 → 1984-12-15
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Health Care median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-11-30
| Metric | Trend | 2023-11-30 | 2024-11-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £73,064,000 | £73,086,000 | |
| Operating profit | £5,874,000 | £2,446,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £48,399,000 | £80,029,000 | |
| Net profit | £45,610,000 | £76,352,000 | |
| Cash | £2,211,000 | £45,237,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £164,643,000 | £244,303,000 | |
| Net assets | £161,070,000 | £113,806,000 | |
| Equity | £161,070,000 | £113,806,000 | |
| Average employees | 250 | 255 | |
| Wages | £11,833,000 | £13,557,000 |
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 | 2023-11-30 | 2024-11-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 8.0% | 3.3% | |
| Net margin | 62.4% | 104.5% | |
| Return on capital employed | 3.6% | 1.0% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 12.2% | 58.5% | |
| Current ratio | 5.71x | 4.90x | |
| Interest cover | 14.83x | 44.47x |
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
- Grant Thornton UK LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The financial statements have been prepared under the going concern basis of accounting. With the continued heavy investment in the business and expected future growth, the company continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing its financial statements.”
Group structure
- PUROLITE LTD · parent
- Purolite (China) Co., Ltd 100%
- Purolite (Int.) Ltd 100%
- Purolite GmbH 100%
- Purolite Pte Ltd 100%
- Purolite Sp.z o.o. 100%
- Purolite SAS 100%
- Purolite LLC 50%
- Purolite KK 100%
- Purolite S de RL de CV 99%
- Purolite (Pty) Ltd 100%
- Purolite Private Limited 50%
- Aqua Environmental Co Limited 100%
- Purolite Ileri Kimyasal Ticaret Ltd 100%
- Purolite Pty Ltd 100%
- Purolite NZ Limited 100%
- Purolite s.r.o. 100%
- Purolite (Zhejiang) Technology Co. Ltd 100%
- Purolite LLC SARL 50%
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 11 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DAVIES, Rhiane | Secretary | 2024-10-15 | — | — |
| CROWE, Hayley Esther | Director | 2021-12-01 | Apr 1980 | American |
| TALBOT, Andrew | Director | 2024-10-15 | Nov 1976 | British |
Show 11 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRODIE, Don Benjamin | Secretary | — | 2021-12-01 |
| DAVIES, Leighton Wynne | Secretary | 2016-07-21 | 2024-02-23 |
| TALBOT, Andrew | Secretary | 2024-02-23 | 2024-10-15 |
| WOOKEY, Adrian John | Secretary | 1992-07-17 | 2016-07-21 |
| BERREBY, Edgar, Monsieur | Director | — | 2012-11-07 |
| BOUSQUET, Henri Louis | Director | — | 2007-11-16 |
| BRODIE, Don Benjamin | Director | — | 2021-12-01 |
| BRODIE, Jacob Wexler | Director | 2018-07-02 | 2021-12-01 |
| BRODIE, Stefan Elisha | Director | — | 2021-12-01 |
| CUNINGHAME, John Montgomery, Sir | Director | — | 2002-03-14 |
| WEGNER, Luke Joseph | Director | 2023-04-18 | 2024-08-14 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bro-Tech Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 280 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-11-26 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-08-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-02-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-11-26 | SH19 | capital | Capital statement capital company with date currency figure | |
| 2024-11-26 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-11-26 | CAP-SS | insolvency | Legacy | |
| 2024-11-26 | SH20 | capital | Legacy | |
| 2024-10-25 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2024-10-25 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-10-25 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2024-10-25 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-07-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-02-23 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2024-02-23 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2023-08-17 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company current shortened | |
| 2023-07-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-07-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-04-20 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-10-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-07-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- Capital events
- 2
- 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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-11-30 vs 2023-11-30
-
Turnover
0%
£73,064,000 £73,086,000
-
Cash
+1,946%
£2,211,000 £45,237,000
-
Net assets
-29.3%
£161,070,000 £113,806,000
-
Employees
+2%
250 255
-
Operating profit
-58.4%
£5,874,000 £2,446,000
-
Profit before tax
+65.4%
£48,399,000 £80,029,000
-
Wages
+14.6%
£11,833,000 £13,557,000
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