SARTORIUS STEDIM LAB LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-03-23 (in 10mo)
Last made up 2026-03-09
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
—
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
£25M
+13.3% vs 2023
Employees
230
-14.5% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£4M
-8.8% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- SARTORIUS STEDIM LAB LIMITED 2007-08-15 → present
- VIVA SCIENCE LIMITED 1992-10-16 → 2007-08-15
- VIVA SCIENTIFIC LIMITED 1992-07-17 → 1992-10-16
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Basic Materials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £31,237,424 | £28,831,044 | |
| Operating profit | £4,190,573 | £3,699,905 | |
| Profit before tax | £4,354,671 | £3,970,124 | |
| Net profit | £3,154,070 | £2,904,879 | |
| Cash | — | — | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £24,044,827 | £27,129,519 | |
| Net assets | £21,782,402 | £24,687,281 | |
| Equity | £21,782,402 | £24,687,281 | |
| Average employees | 269 | 230 | |
| Wages | £9,086,009 | £8,053,856 |
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 | 13.4% | 12.8% | |
| Net margin | 10.1% | 10.1% | |
| Return on capital employed | 17.4% | 13.6% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 16.6% | 18.4% | |
| Current ratio | 4.95x | 4.58x | |
| Interest cover | 638.32x | 97.80x |
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
- IFRS
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis which the directors consider to be appropriate for the following reasons... The directors are confident that the company will have sufficient funds to continue to meet its liabilities as they fall due for at least 12 months from date of approval of the financial statements and therefore have prepared the financial statements on a going concern basis.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 18 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PULLIN, Purification Perez | Secretary | 2017-08-18 | — | — |
| KALINOWSKI, Mark James Adam | Director | 2023-07-01 | Nov 1965 | English |
| WOOLF, Ian James | Director | 2020-06-02 | Jun 1967 | British |
Show 18 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRAITHWAITE, Peter Ralph Christopher | Secretary | 1992-07-17 | 2008-11-19 |
| HARGRAVE, Ian George | Secretary | 2008-09-04 | 2014-06-12 |
| SWEETMAN, Anthony Joseph | Secretary | 2014-06-12 | 2017-08-18 |
| SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 1992-07-17 | 1992-07-17 |
| ALLAN, Lindsay Gilbert | Director | 1999-06-23 | 2002-06-06 |
| BECKER, Uwe Günter Walter | Director | 2011-09-19 | 2015-02-01 |
| BIDDELL, Christopher Richard | Director | 2002-03-28 | 2022-06-30 |
| FEGAN, Scott | Director | 2020-06-02 | 2024-03-01 |
| HARTWIG, Thomas Josef | Director | 1999-06-22 | 2003-12-31 |
| HERMAN, Ralf | Director | 2001-01-11 | 2003-12-31 |
| KEFF, Matthias Stephan | Director | 2002-03-28 | 2005-10-31 |
| KREUZBURG, Joachim, Dr | Director | 2004-09-14 | 2019-02-18 |
| LAUSCH, Ralf, Dr | Director | 2015-02-01 | 2021-04-01 |
| NICKERSON, Charles Joseph | Director | 1992-07-17 | 2015-02-01 |
| NIEBEL, Volker | Director | 2006-03-01 | 2019-02-18 |
| VASSAROTTI, Vincenzo | Director | 1992-08-21 | 2000-09-01 |
| VOGT, Reinhard | Director | 1999-06-22 | 2004-03-24 |
| WESSEL, Matthias | Director | 2019-02-18 | 2020-03-04 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sartorius Stedim Biotech Sa | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 157 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-10-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-08-11 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-08-08 | CH03 | officers | Change person secretary company with change date | |
| 2025-03-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-01-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-04-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-03-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-01-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-07-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-03-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-09-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-07-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-04-12 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2022-04-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-12-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-04-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-04-12 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2020-12-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-06-08 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- 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
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
-7.7%
£31,237,424 £28,831,044
-
Cash
—
Not reported
-
Net assets
+13.3%
£21,782,402 £24,687,281
-
Employees
-14.5%
269 230
-
Operating profit
-11.7%
£4,190,573 £3,699,905
-
Profit before tax
-8.8%
£4,354,671 £3,970,124
-
Wages
-11.4%
£9,086,009 £8,053,856
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