POLYFARMA LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-09 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-06-25
Watchouts
Cash
—
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
£3M
+10.7% vs 2024
Employees
—
Average over period
Profit before tax
£361K
-3.7% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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4 officer resignations in last 12 months
Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.
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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
- POLYFARMA LIMITED 1998-02-20 → present
- EURIMPHARM LIMITED 1992-09-03 → 1998-02-20
- POLYFARMA LIMITED 1992-06-26 → 1992-09-03
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 | £441,000 | £441,000 | |
| Operating profit | £375,000 | £361,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £375,000 | £361,000 | |
| Net profit | £266,000 | £252,000 | |
| Cash | — | — | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £2,349,000 | £2,601,000 | |
| Net assets | £2,349,000 | £2,601,000 | |
| Equity | £2,349,000 | £2,601,000 | |
| 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 | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 85.0% | 81.9% | |
| Net margin | 60.3% | 57.1% | |
| Return on capital employed | 16.0% | 13.9% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 60.1% | 28.0% | |
| Current ratio | 0.93x | 1.08x |
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
- KPMG
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis. To the best of the Directors' knowledge, the Company will continue in existence for at least 12 months from the date of approval of these financial statements. Accordingly, the going concern basis of preparation remains appropriate.”
Significant events
- “On 22 April 2025, the Company's ultimate parent undertaking, DCC plc announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement for the sale of DCC's healthcare division (including this Company) to HealthCo Investment Limited.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 20 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VISTRA COSEC LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2026-05-07 | — | — |
| TRACEY, Patrick | Director | 2025-09-30 | Mar 1958 | Irish |
Show 20 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMOS, Ashley John | Secretary | 2011-04-15 | 2013-02-26 |
| DALY, Michael | Secretary | 2000-01-24 | 2006-07-13 |
| GREEN, Lloyd Sinclair | Secretary | 1992-07-03 | 1994-09-26 |
| MEHTA, Homiar Erach | Secretary | 1998-02-21 | 2000-01-24 |
| OVERY, Michael John | Secretary | 2006-07-14 | 2011-04-15 |
| WISEMAN, Stewart Brian | Secretary | 1994-09-26 | 1998-02-21 |
| ARMSTRONG, David Frank | Director | 2014-05-01 | 2014-09-30 |
| CHAPELLE, Lambert Marie Jozef | Director | 1994-09-26 | 1998-02-21 |
| COSTIGAN, Conor Francis | Director | 2013-02-26 | 2025-09-30 |
| DALY, Michael | Director | 2000-01-24 | 2006-09-22 |
| DEACON, Leslie Robert | Director | 2013-02-26 | 2020-05-29 |
| EASTO, Robert Patrick | Director | 1994-09-26 | 2003-05-02 |
| GREEN, Mervyn | Director | 1992-07-03 | 1994-09-27 |
| KEENAN, Harry | Director | 2015-05-01 | 2025-08-01 |
| MCEVOY, Redmond | Director | 2013-02-26 | 2025-09-30 |
| MEHTA, Homiar Erach | Director | 1998-02-21 | 2000-01-24 |
| MORAN, Caroline | Director | 2020-05-15 | 2026-03-31 |
| O'CONNELL, Andrew | Director | 2013-02-26 | 2013-09-27 |
| O'NEILL, Denis William | Director | 2000-01-24 | 2011-01-05 |
| OVERY, Michael John | Director | 2003-05-02 | 2013-02-26 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Healthco Investment Limited | Corporate entity | Significant influence | 2025-09-08 | Active |
| Dcc Plc | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-firm, significant-influence-or-control-as-firm | 2019-05-10 | Ceased 2025-09-08 |
| Dcc Vital (Uk) Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, voting-rights-75-to-100-percent-as-firm, Appoints directors, significant-influence-or-control-as-firm | 2016-04-30 | Ceased 2019-05-10 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 146 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-12 | AP04 | officers | Appoint corporate secretary company with name date | |
| 2026-04-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-10-14 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-10-14 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-10-10 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-29 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-09-29 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-09-12 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company current shortened | |
| 2025-08-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-08-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-06-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-09-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-06-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-06-20 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2023-09-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-06-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-08-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-06-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-09-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-06-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 11
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- Officers resigned
- 4
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
0%
£441,000 £441,000
-
Cash
—
Not reported
-
Net assets
+10.7%
£2,349,000 £2,601,000
-
Employees
—
Not reported
-
Operating profit
-3.7%
£375,000 £361,000
-
Profit before tax
-3.7%
£375,000 £361,000
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