CORTEVA AGRISCIENCE UK LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-29 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-07-15
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£549K
+830.5% vs 2023
Net assets
£7M
-19.8% vs 2023
Employees
121
+0.8% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£7M
-12.2% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 5 times since incorporation
- CORTEVA AGRISCIENCE UK LIMITED 2021-01-05 → present
- DOW AGROSCIENCES LIMITED 1998-01-01 → 2021-01-05
- DOWELANCO LIMITED 1990-01-10 → 1998-01-01
- DOW ELANCO LIMITED 1989-10-09 → 1990-01-10
- DOW AGRICULTURE LIMITED 1989-08-25 → 1989-10-09
- REEDPAD LIMITED 1989-05-09 → 1989-08-25
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £113,581,000 | £97,008,000 | |
| Operating profit | -£616,000 | £6,871,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £8,013,000 | £7,032,000 | |
| Net profit | £5,700,000 | £5,339,000 | |
| Cash | £59,000 | £549,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £9,652,000 | £7,748,000 | |
| Net assets | £9,153,000 | £7,343,000 | |
| Equity | £9,153,000 | £7,343,000 | |
| Average employees | 120 | 121 | |
| Wages | £8,601,000 | £8,897,000 |
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 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -0.5% | 7.1% | |
| Net margin | 5.0% | 5.5% | |
| Return on capital employed | -6.4% | 88.7% | |
| Current ratio | 1.26x | 1.27x | |
| Interest cover | -0.51x | 18.88x |
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
- PricewaterhouseCoopers
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors consider the Company to be a going concern given its strong balance sheet position and the intention to continue to trade. See note 2 to the financial statements.”
Significant events
- “Since 2020, the Company has been undergoing full remediation and decommissioning of its site in King's Lynn, before its planned disposal. The decommissioning process was completed by the end of Q1 2025, after the balance sheet date. The directors plan to dispose of this site in 2025.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 28 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BARNATT, Edward Andrew | Director | 2025-10-01 | Sep 1974 | British |
| BHUVA, Vijay Shantilal | Director | 2019-06-14 | Jun 1960 | British |
Show 28 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| AROZENA, Fernando | Secretary | 1992-07-06 | 1996-02-07 |
| CRACKNELL, Louise | Secretary | 2010-07-20 | 2013-09-09 |
| DANCE, Iona Lorraine | Secretary | 1996-02-07 | 2010-07-20 |
| FOX, Kim Lesley | Secretary | 2013-09-09 | 2016-07-06 |
| JENKINS, Cathrine Anne | Secretary | 2016-07-06 | 2019-04-01 |
| WALES, William Wesley | Secretary | — | 1992-07-06 |
| DYE & DURHAM SECRETARIAL LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2021-12-07 | 2023-06-02 |
| BOOTHEY, Scott Alexander | Director | 2011-06-01 | 2015-02-09 |
| COLLISON, Robert | Director | 1992-10-01 | 1996-07-15 |
| CORRIGAN, William Mark | Director | 2021-01-01 | 2025-10-01 |
| DANN, Geoffrey William | Director | 2000-09-14 | 2006-03-31 |
| FISCHER, Arthur Charles | Director | — | 1992-08-31 |
| GALE, Robert Nicholas Cassell | Director | — | 1996-04-30 |
| GERMON, Everett N | Director | 1996-04-30 | 2000-07-27 |
| GOUGH, Adrian Paul | Director | 2019-04-01 | 2021-01-01 |
| HUMPHREYS, John David | Director | 2017-04-01 | 2018-12-30 |
| JONES, Andrew Michael | Director | 2016-04-19 | 2019-04-01 |
| LONGHURST, Christopher, Dr | Director | 1998-03-12 | 2012-06-30 |
| MCCORMACK, Richard Anthony | Director | 2018-12-30 | 2019-06-14 |
| MCEWAN, Toni Fasone | Director | 2015-02-09 | 2017-04-01 |
| NICKLIN, Hugh Giles | Director | 1998-03-12 | 2000-09-14 |
| PESKETT, Francis John | Director | — | 1992-09-30 |
| RISH, Nelson Wayne | Director | 1992-09-01 | 1998-03-12 |
| SCORER, David John | Director | 1999-07-27 | 2009-08-01 |
| SEGUIN, Jean | Director | 1996-05-01 | 1998-03-12 |
| WEST, Johanna | Director | 2012-12-17 | 2016-04-19 |
| WESTWATER, Donald Sinclair | Director | 2009-08-01 | 2011-06-01 |
| WIGGINS, Keith Alan | Director | 2006-03-31 | 2012-12-17 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corteva Inc. | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2019-06-01 | Active |
| The Dow Chemical Company | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2019-06-01 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 202 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2023-11-14 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-10-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-07-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-07-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-07-18 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-10-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-07-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-05-01 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2023-11-14 | SH19 | capital | Capital statement capital company with date currency figure | |
| 2023-11-14 | SH20 | capital | Legacy | |
| 2023-11-14 | CAP-SS | insolvency | Legacy | |
| 2023-11-14 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2023-10-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-08-22 | RP04CS01 | confirmation-statement | Second filing of confirmation statement with made up date | |
| 2023-08-16 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2023-08-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-06-29 | AD03 | address | Move registers to sail company with new address | |
| 2023-06-29 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with old address new address | |
| 2023-06-02 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2023-02-10 | CH04 | officers | Change corporate secretary company with change date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 1
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 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
-14.6%
£113,581,000 £97,008,000
-
Cash
+830.5%
£59,000 £549,000
-
Net assets
-19.8%
£9,153,000 £7,343,000
-
Employees
+0.8%
120 121
-
Operating profit
+1,215.4%
-£616,000 £6,871,000
-
Profit before tax
-12.2%
£8,013,000 £7,032,000
-
Wages
+3.4%
£8,601,000 £8,897,000
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