PROMEGA UK LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-06-30 (in 1mo)
Last made up 2025-06-16
Watchouts
Cash
£2M
-41.4% vs 2024
Net assets
£14M
-0.7% vs 2024
Employees
57
+1.8% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£5M
+3.5% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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1 PSC ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- PROMEGA UK LIMITED 1996-10-11 → present
- PROMEGA LIMITED 1989-10-30 → 1996-10-11
- PAYSTEP LIMITED 1989-09-18 → 1989-10-30
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £26,792,860 | £30,089,772 | |
| Operating profit | £4,863,940 | £5,028,497 | |
| Profit before tax | £4,958,999 | £5,133,399 | |
| Net profit | £3,678,828 | £3,814,179 | |
| Cash | £4,125,742 | £2,417,803 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £14,557,094 | £14,448,596 | |
| Net assets | £14,557,094 | £14,448,596 | |
| Equity | £14,557,094 | £14,448,596 | |
| Average employees | 56 | 57 | |
| Wages | £3,409,926 | £3,935,370 |
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 | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 18.2% | 16.7% | |
| Net margin | 13.7% | 12.7% | |
| Return on capital employed | 33.4% | 34.8% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 19.9% | 22.4% | |
| Current ratio | 2.86x | 2.65x | |
| Interest cover | 203.39x | 707.34x |
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 company has adequate financial resources and after reviewing its forecasts and projections for the next 12 months, the directors believe the company is well placed to manage its business risks successfully. The directors have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future and so continues to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the annual financial statements.”
Significant events
- “Promega UK is committed to achieving Net Zero carbon emissions by 2045, with interim targets of 100% reduction in Scope 1 emissions by 2030 and maintaining our 100% market-based reduction in Scope 2 emissions, achieved in 2022.”
- “In 2024, we installed on-site solar panels to further reduce electricity-related emissions.”
- “We have secured an additional plot of land adjacent to our current building to support future growth opportunities, ensuring we can remain at our existing location and enhance employee retention.”
- “Recent changes to US trade policy, including the expansion of tariffs on both imported and exported goods are expected to affect future financial periods. These tariffs could result in increased supply chain costs for imported materials and could therefore impact the pricing of our products.”
- “There have been no subsequent events since the balance sheet date.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 4 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BELL, Deborah Jane | Secretary | 2007-09-24 | — | British |
| LINTON, William Alderman | Director | — | Jul 1947 | American |
| MCCALL, Derek | Director | 2001-02-28 | Dec 1958 | British |
Show 4 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| FOWMES, Stephen Roger | Secretary | 2002-04-02 | 2007-09-07 |
| HEFFERNAN, James Gerard, Doctor | Secretary | — | 1993-04-14 |
| STANSFIELD, Roy | Secretary | 1993-04-14 | 2002-03-28 |
| HEFFERNAN, James Gerard, Doctor | Director | — | 2000-01-21 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr William Alderman Linton | Individual | Shares 50–75%, Voting 50–75%, Appoints directors | 2025-01-01 | Active |
| Promega Corporation | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2024-12-31 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 105 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-06-26 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-06-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-01-29 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-01-29 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-07-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-06-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-10-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-06-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-08-31 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-06-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-09-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-06-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-07-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-06-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-09-26 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2019-09-26 | CH03 | officers | Change person secretary company with change date | |
| 2019-09-24 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2019-08-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2019-07-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- Capital events
- 0
- 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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31
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Turnover
+12.3%
£26,792,860 £30,089,772
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Cash
-41.4%
£4,125,742 £2,417,803
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Net assets
-0.7%
£14,557,094 £14,448,596
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Employees
+1.8%
56 57
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Operating profit
+3.4%
£4,863,940 £5,028,497
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Profit before tax
+3.5%
£4,958,999 £5,133,399
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Wages
+15.4%
£3,409,926 £3,935,370
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