GLOBAL LIFE SCIENCES SOLUTIONS OPERATIONS UK LTD
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-04 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-06-20
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£70M
+184.6% vs 2023
Net assets
£696M
+0.1% vs 2023
Employees
1,060
-0.8% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£16M
-73.4% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £271,801,000 | £158,451,000 | |
| Operating profit | £14,074,000 | £13,018,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £59,265,000 | £15,783,000 | |
| Net profit | £37,201,000 | £15,116,000 | |
| Cash | £24,560,000 | £69,905,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £717,361,000 | £717,934,000 | |
| Net assets | £695,574,000 | £696,202,000 | |
| Equity | £695,574,000 | £696,202,000 | |
| Average employees | 1,069 | 1,060 | |
| Wages | £74,728,000 | £86,975,000 |
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 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 5.2% | 8.2% | |
| Net margin | 13.7% | 9.5% | |
| Return on capital employed | 2.0% | 1.8% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 12.3% | 10.6% | |
| Current ratio | 1.14x | 1.74x | |
| Interest cover | 113.50x | 8.56x |
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
- Ernst & Young LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The financial statements show that the Company made a significant profit in 2024 and is expected to continue to trade profitably during the going concern assessment period to 30 September 2026 (the assessment period). The Company has positive net assets and net current assets. The Company has a significant cash balance and is forecast to have positive cashflow throughout the going concern assessment period.”
Group structure
- GLOBAL LIFE SCIENCES SOLUTIONS OPERATIONS UK LTD · parent
- Cytiva Ireland Limited 60.8%
Significant events
- “on 28 February 2023, the Company divested its Irish commercial assets and related business activities to Cytiva Ireland Limited, a fellow subsidiary undertaking, for a consideration of £82.6 million, settled through the issue of ordinary shares in Cytiva Ireland Limited.”
- “A dividend in specie amounting to £18 million (2023: £nil million) was paid during the year.”
- “The Directors reviewed the capital needs of the Company during the year, and determined to distribute the Company's investment in a subsidiary undertaking to its parent undertaking, amounting to £18.0 million.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 5 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BRELLIER, Ludovic | Director | 2023-12-31 | Nov 1975 | French |
| LESTER, Andrew Lawrence | Director | 2023-12-31 | Dec 1971 | British |
| MCGUIRE, James | Director | 2025-08-28 | Sep 1974 | British |
Show 5 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| DE LOS ANGELES KHOURY GONZALO, Maria | Director | 2020-03-31 | 2025-08-28 |
| FRENCH, Sebastian Edward | Director | 2020-03-31 | 2021-05-20 |
| LIGNER, Emmanuel Francois Joel | Director | 2020-03-31 | 2023-12-31 |
| MCFADEN, Frank Talbot | Director | 2019-06-21 | 2020-03-31 |
| ROBERTSON, Daniel Roger | Director | 2021-05-20 | 2023-12-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pall European Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2019-06-21 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 33 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2022-07-27 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-09-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-07-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-07-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-02-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-07-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-01-10 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-01-10 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-01-10 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-01-10 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-09-05 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2023-07-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-07-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-05-01 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2022-07-27 | SH19 | capital | Capital statement capital company with date currency figure | |
| 2022-07-27 | SH20 | capital | Legacy | |
| 2022-07-27 | CAP-SS | insolvency | Legacy | |
| 2022-07-27 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2022-07-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-06-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 1
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
-41.7%
£271,801,000 £158,451,000
-
Cash
+184.6%
£24,560,000 £69,905,000
-
Net assets
+0.1%
£695,574,000 £696,202,000
-
Employees
-0.8%
1,069 1,060
-
Operating profit
-7.5%
£14,074,000 £13,018,000
-
Profit before tax
-73.4%
£59,265,000 £15,783,000
-
Wages
+16.4%
£74,728,000 £86,975,000
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