BIOCHROM LIMITED

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  Annual accounts overdue

  Due 2025-12-31.

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  Material uncertainty over going concern

  A material uncertainty still exists that may cast significant doubt on the Company's ability to continue as a going concern, due to its reliance on financial support from its parent undertaking, which itself is dependent on successfully refinancing its debt facilities by 30 June 2025. Despite this, the financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis and do not include any adjustments that would be required should the Company be unable to continue as a going concern.

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  3 officer resignations in last 12 months

  Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.

1. BIOCHROM LIMITED 1998-03-26 → present
2. INTERCEDE 1313 LIMITED 1998-03-13 → 1998-03-26

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

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.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

Grant Thornton UK LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Material uncertainty disclosed

“A material uncertainty still exists that may cast significant doubt on the Company's ability to continue as a going concern, due to its reliance on financial support from its parent undertaking, which itself is dependent on successfully refinancing its debt facilities by 30 June 2025. Despite this, the financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis and do not include any adjustments that would be required should the Company be unable to continue as a going concern.”

Group structure

1. BIOCHROM LIMITED · parent
   1. Scie-Plas Limited 100% · England and Wales · Dormant
   2. Asys Hitech GmbH 100% · Austria · Dormant
   3. Walden Precision Apparatus Limited 100% · England and Wales · Dormant
   4. CMA Microdialysis AB 100% · Sweden · Manufacturer of laboratory equipment
   5. Multi Channel Systems GmbH 100% · Germany · Developer, manufacturer and marketer of scientific instrumentation

Significant events

• “In August 2024, the Company completed a bulk annuity transaction with Just Group Pic for its Harvard Apparatus Limited Retirement Benefit Scheme. At this point, all of the Scheme's remaining liabilities were secured via an insurance policy in the name of the Trustee.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

6

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

1

last 12 months

Officers resigned

3

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  -9.9%

  £12,185,885 → £10,979,446

• Cash

  +10.6%

  £470,619 → £520,675

• Net assets

  +4.6%

  £11,844,963 → £12,392,549

• Employees

  -2.7%

  37 → 36

• Operating profit

  +55.4%

  £802,962 → £1,247,776

• Profit before tax

  +172.5%

  £363,718 → £991,268

• Wages

  -1.8%

  £1,832,782 → £1,799,253

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