AGENUS UK LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2025-12-31
Overdue
Confirmation statement due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last made up 2025-09-16
Watchouts
Cash
£187K
+315.6% vs 2022
Net assets
£4M
-31.7% vs 2022
Employees
43
+19.4% vs 2022
Profit before tax
-£5M
-968.5% vs 2022
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Annual accounts overdue
Due 2025-12-31.
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Material uncertainty over going concern
The financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis, notwithstanding that the company has an operating cash outflow of £1,879k, amounts owed to group companies of £48,949k which are repayable on demand, cash of only £187k and is dependent on funds provided to it by Agenus Inc., the company's ultimate parent, to meet its working capital requirements. Whilst the director has instituted measures to preserve cash, there is uncertainty over future cash flows.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2023-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2022-12-31 | 2023-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £7,844,000 | £8,320,000 | |
| Operating profit | £590,000 | -£5,124,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £590,000 | -£5,124,000 | |
| Net profit | £1,451,000 | -£4,565,000 | |
| Cash | £45,000 | £187,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £6,639,000 | £4,464,000 | |
| Net assets | £6,455,000 | £4,406,000 | |
| Equity | £6,455,000 | £4,406,000 | |
| Average employees | 36 | 43 | |
| Wages | £2,413,000 | £2,773,000 |
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 | 2022-12-31 | 2023-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 7.5% | -61.6% | |
| Net margin | 18.5% | -54.9% | |
| Return on capital employed | 8.9% | -114.8% | |
| Current ratio | 1.10x | 1.05x |
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
- KPMG LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Material uncertainty disclosed
“The financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis, notwithstanding that the company has an operating cash outflow of £1,879k, amounts owed to group companies of £48,949k which are repayable on demand, cash of only £187k and is dependent on funds provided to it by Agenus Inc., the company's ultimate parent, to meet its working capital requirements. Whilst the director has instituted measures to preserve cash, there is uncertainty over future cash flows.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 3 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TAYLOR WESSING SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2015-09-17 | — | — |
| ARMEN, Garo H. | Director | 2015-09-17 | Jan 1953 | American |
Show 3 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BURSBY, Richard Michael | Director | 2015-09-17 | 2015-09-17 |
| HUNTSMOOR LIMITED | Corporate Director | 2015-09-17 | 2015-09-17 |
| HUNTSMOOR NOMINEES LIMITED | Corporate Director | 2015-09-17 | 2015-09-17 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agenus Inc. | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 36 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-08-14 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-06-25 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2025-03-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-09-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-03-04 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-10-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-09-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-08-31 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2023-08-30 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-06-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-09-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-02-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-09-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-05-07 | DISS40 | gazette | Gazette filings brought up to date | |
| 2021-05-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-04-13 | GAZ1 | gazette | Gazette notice compulsory | |
| 2020-09-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-02-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2019-12-11 | DISS40 | gazette | Gazette filings brought up to date |
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
FY2022 → FY2023 · period ending 2023-12-31 vs 2022-12-31
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Turnover
+6.1%
£7,844,000 £8,320,000
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Cash
+315.6%
£45,000 £187,000
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Net assets
-31.7%
£6,455,000 £4,406,000
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Employees
+19.4%
36 43
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Operating profit
-968.5%
£590,000 -£5,124,000
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Profit before tax
-968.5%
£590,000 -£5,124,000
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Wages
+14.9%
£2,413,000 £2,773,000
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