KENT PHARMA UK LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-29 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-10-15
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£15M
-7.2% vs 2024
Net assets
£12M
+33.8% vs 2024
Employees
75
+1.4% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£4M
-49.3% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £85,857,000 | £80,339,000 | |
| Operating profit | £9,792,000 | £5,909,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £7,454,000 | £3,782,000 | |
| Net profit | £5,642,000 | £2,939,000 | |
| Cash | £16,015,000 | £14,864,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £36,349,000 | £32,288,000 | |
| Net assets | £8,699,000 | £11,638,000 | |
| Equity | £8,699,000 | £11,638,000 | |
| Average employees | 74 | 75 | |
| Wages | £5,428,000 | £4,625,000 |
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 | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 11.4% | 7.4% | |
| Net margin | 6.6% | 3.7% | |
| Return on capital employed | 26.9% | 18.3% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 87.8% | 83.3% | |
| Current ratio | 1.76x | 1.64x | |
| Interest cover | 4.19x | 2.60x |
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
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The financial statements have been prepared on the going concern basis. The Company made a profit in 2025 and has net assets of £11,638,006. The company's ultimate parent company, DS Spring Top Co Limited has confirmed funds will be available to the Company as required. In assessing whether the going concern as”
Group structure
- KENT PHARMA UK LIMITED · parent
- Dalkeith Laboratories Limited 100%
- OTC Concepts Limited 100%
- Herbal Concepts Limited 100%
Significant events
- “The directors confirm to the best of their knowledge that there have been no subsequent events after the year end that would materially affect the financial statements”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 3 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JAMES, Kevin | Director | 2022-03-23 | Feb 1955 | British |
| PETERSEN, Terry John | Director | 2024-07-15 | Mar 1974 | British |
| WRIGHT, David | Director | 2019-09-16 | Jun 1964 | Irish |
Show 3 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| DASGUPTA, Debashis | Director | 2019-09-16 | 2022-03-22 |
| MCEVOY, Redmond | Director | 2019-05-13 | 2019-09-16 |
| O'CONNOR, Stephen Clifford | Director | 2018-09-18 | 2019-09-16 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ds Spring Bidco Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2019-09-16 | Active |
| Fannin (Uk) Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2018-09-18 | Ceased 2019-09-16 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 48 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-10-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-02-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-10-15 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-07-15 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-06-01 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-05-08 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-04-29 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-04-29 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-04-10 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-01-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-11-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-04-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-11-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-10-04 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2022-09-30 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2022-09-28 | MR05 | mortgage | Mortgage charge part release with charge number | |
| 2022-09-21 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2022-09-15 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2022-07-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- 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
-
Turnover
-6.4%
£85,857,000 £80,339,000
-
Cash
-7.2%
£16,015,000 £14,864,000
-
Net assets
+33.8%
£8,699,000 £11,638,000
-
Employees
+1.4%
74 75
-
Operating profit
-39.7%
£9,792,000 £5,909,000
-
Profit before tax
-49.3%
£7,454,000 £3,782,000
-
Wages
-14.8%
£5,428,000 £4,625,000
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