UNIPHAR COMMERCIAL UK LIMITED
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Cash
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Latest balance sheet
Net assets
£7.3m
-8.8% lowest in 3 filed years
Employees
119
+28% highest in 3 filed years
Profit before tax
-£946k
-127.9% vs 2024
Net assets
3-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
3-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2025-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 | Δ vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £9,859,316 | £9,831,948 | £10,419,493 | +6% | |
| Operating profit | -£1,655,697 | -£374,765 | -£906,563 | -141.9% | |
| Profit before tax | -£1,667,310 | -£415,269 | -£946,492 | -127.9% | |
| Net profit | -£1,319,173 | -£308,333 | -£704,353 | -128.4% | |
| Cash | £753,508 | £107,388 | — | — | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £8,577,076 | £8,191,379 | — | — | |
| Net assets | £8,267,786 | £8,018,444 | £7,314,091 | -8.8% | |
| Equity | £8,267,786 | £8,018,444 | — | — | |
| Average employees | 93 | 93 | 119 | +28% | |
| Wages | £6,207,644 | £5,847,731 | £6,960,508 | +19% | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | — | — | — |
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 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -16.8% | -3.8% | -8.7% | |
| Net margin | -13.4% | -3.1% | -6.8% | |
| Return on capital employed | -19.3% | -4.6% | — | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 20.3% | 26.9% | 39.3% | |
| Current ratio | 4.94x | 3.55x | — | |
| Interest cover | -61.27x | -8.45x | -22.51x |
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
- UNIPHAR COMMERCIAL UK LIMITED 2024-01-15 → present
- STAR OUTICO LIMITED 2020-10-09 → 2024-01-15
- STAR MEDICAL CONTRACTS LIMITED 2006-04-05 → 2020-10-09
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 101
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- PricewaterhouseCoopers
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Having regard to the factors noted above, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the Company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, being a period of 12 months from the date of approval of these financial statements.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 7 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MCCARTHY, Aisling | Secretary | 2019-05-01 | — | — |
| DOLPHIN, Tim | Director | 2015-03-16 | Nov 1964 | Irish |
| TAAFFE, Siobhán | Director | 2022-05-20 | May 1971 | Irish |
Show 7 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| HANRATTY, Robert | Secretary | 2015-03-16 | 2019-05-01 |
| O'NEILL, Lucy | Secretary | 2006-04-05 | 2015-03-16 |
| BOYD, Gemma Victoria | Director | 2012-03-16 | 2013-02-21 |
| DEMPSEY, Padraic | Director | 2015-03-16 | 2022-05-20 |
| O'NEILL, Lucy | Director | 2006-04-05 | 2015-03-16 |
| QUINN, Liam | Director | 2015-03-16 | 2019-12-05 |
| WEBSTER, Timothy Edward | Director | 2006-04-05 | 2015-03-16 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uniphar Uk Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 106 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-01-15 CERTNM Certificate change of name company PDF
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-06-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-12-22 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2025-09-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-06-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-04-08 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-02-21 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2025-02-21 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2024-10-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-04-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-01-15 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2024-01-15 | CERTNM | change-of-name | Certificate change of name company | |
| 2023-09-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-07-17 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with old address new address | |
| 2023-07-14 | AD03 | address | Move registers to sail company with new address | |
| 2023-04-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-09-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-08-31 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2022-08-26 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2022-05-30 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name 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.