PUROLITE LTD
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Cash
£66m
+45.3% highest in 3 filed years
Net assets
£138m
+16.6% vs 2024
Employees
219
-14.1% lowest in 3 filed years
Profit before tax
£24m
-71.1% lowest in 3 filed years
Net assets
3-year trend · vs Health Care median
Accounts
3-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2025-11-30
| Metric | Trend | 2023-11-30 | 2024-11-30 | 2025-11-30 | Δ vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £73,064,000 | £73,086,000 | £76,090,000 | +4.1% | |
| Operating profit | £5,874,000 | £7,033,000 | £10,093,000 | +43.5% | |
| Profit before tax | £48,399,000 | £84,616,000 | £24,462,000 | -71.1% | |
| Net profit | £45,610,000 | £80,939,000 | £17,743,000 | -78.1% | |
| Cash | £2,211,000 | £45,237,000 | £65,734,000 | +45.3% | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £164,643,000 | £248,890,000 | — | — | |
| Net assets | £161,070,000 | £118,393,000 | £138,000,000 | +16.6% | |
| Equity | £161,070,000 | £118,393,000 | £138,000,000 | +16.6% | |
| Average employees | 250 | 255 | 219 | -14.1% | |
| Wages | £11,833,000 | £13,557,000 | £11,616,000 | -14.3% | |
| Directors' remuneration | £0 | £22,000 | £187,828 | +753.8% | |
| Directors' pension contributions | — | £1,000 | £6,173 | +517.3% |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. The Δ column is the change from the prior filed period as a percentage of |prior|; lines a company doesn't report show —. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-11-30 | 2024-11-30 | 2025-11-30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 8.0% | 9.6% | 13.3% | |
| Net margin | 62.4% | 110.7% | 23.3% | |
| Return on capital employed | 3.6% | 2.8% | — | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 12.2% | 57.5% | 55.6% | |
| Current ratio | 5.71x | 5.05x | 5.88x | |
| Interest cover | 14.83x | — | 1.40x |
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.
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- PUROLITE LTD 2012-12-21 → present
- PUROLITE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED 1984-12-15 → 2012-12-21
- WISEBLEND LIMITED 1984-08-15 → 1984-12-15
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Grant Thornton UK LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The company continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing its financial statements.”
Group structure
- PUROLITE LTD · parent
- Purolite (China) Co., Ltd 100%
- Purolite (Int.) Ltd 100%
- Purolite GmbH 100%
- Purolite Pte Ltd 100%
- Purolite Sp.z o.o. 100%
- Purolite SAS 100%
- Purolite LLC 50%
- Purolite KK 100%
- Purolite S de RL de CV 99%
- Purolite (Pty) Ltd 100%
- Purolite Private Limited 50%
- Aqua Environmental Co Limited 100%
- Purolite Ileri Kimyasal Ticaret Ltd 100%
- Purolite Pty Ltd 100%
- Purolite NZ Limited 100%
- Purolite s.r.o. 100%
- Purolite (Zhejiang) Technology Co. Ltd 100%
- Purolite LLC SARL 50%
Significant events
- “The company identified that input VAT of £6,237,000 in respect of the period to 30 November 2025 had been under-declared in its UK VAT returns.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 11 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DAVIES, Rhiane | Secretary | 2024-10-15 | — | — |
| CROWE, Hayley Esther | Director | 2021-12-01 | Apr 1980 | American |
| TALBOT, Andrew | Director | 2024-10-15 | Nov 1976 | British |
Show 11 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRODIE, Don Benjamin | Secretary | — | 2021-12-01 |
| DAVIES, Leighton Wynne | Secretary | 2016-07-21 | 2024-02-23 |
| TALBOT, Andrew | Secretary | 2024-02-23 | 2024-10-15 |
| WOOKEY, Adrian John | Secretary | 1992-07-17 | 2016-07-21 |
| BERREBY, Edgar, Monsieur | Director | — | 2012-11-07 |
| BOUSQUET, Henri Louis | Director | — | 2007-11-16 |
| BRODIE, Don Benjamin | Director | — | 2021-12-01 |
| BRODIE, Jacob Wexler | Director | 2018-07-02 | 2021-12-01 |
| BRODIE, Stefan Elisha | Director | — | 2021-12-01 |
| CUNINGHAME, John Montgomery, Sir | Director | — | 2002-03-14 |
| WEGNER, Luke Joseph | Director | 2023-04-18 | 2024-08-14 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bro-Tech Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 282 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-11-26 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-07-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-09-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-08-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-02-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-11-26 | SH19 | capital | Capital statement capital company with date currency figure | |
| 2024-11-26 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-11-26 | CAP-SS | insolvency | Legacy | |
| 2024-11-26 | SH20 | capital | Legacy | |
| 2024-10-25 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2024-10-25 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-10-25 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2024-10-25 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-07-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-02-23 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2024-02-23 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2023-08-17 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company current shortened | |
| 2023-07-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-07-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-04-20 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- Capital events
- 2
- 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.