SYMRISE LIMITED
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Cash
£0
-100% lowest in 3 filed years
Net assets
£47m
+17% highest in 3 filed years
Employees
208
-5% lowest in 3 filed years
Profit before tax
£9.3m
+57.1% highest in 3 filed years
Net assets
3-year trend · vs Consumer Staples 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 | £99,056,000 | £66,903,000 | £61,874,000 | -7.5% | |
| Operating profit | £2,791,000 | £4,969,000 | £7,555,000 | +52% | |
| Profit before tax | £3,046,000 | £5,924,000 | £9,308,000 | +57.1% | |
| Net profit | £2,221,000 | £5,062,000 | £6,857,000 | +35.5% | |
| Cash | £3,734,000 | £3,033,000 | £0 | -100% | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £36,982,000 | £42,031,000 | £48,908,000 | +16.4% | |
| Net assets | £35,189,000 | £40,251,000 | £47,108,000 | +17% | |
| Equity | £35,189,000 | £40,251,000 | £47,108,000 | +17% | |
| Average employees | 229 | 219 | 208 | -5% | |
| Wages | £15,161,000 | £15,468,000 | £14,602,000 | -5.6% | |
| Directors' remuneration | £396,000 | £397,000 | £386,000 | -2.8% |
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 | 2.8% | 7.4% | 12.2% | |
| Net margin | 2.2% | 7.6% | 11.1% | |
| Return on capital employed | 7.5% | 11.8% | 15.4% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | — | 21.2% | 22.1% | |
| Current ratio | 3.37x | 4.95x | 4.59x | |
| Interest cover | 77.53x | — | — |
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 1 time since incorporation
- SYMRISE LIMITED 2003-04-01 → present
- HAARMANN & REIMER LIMITED 1966-01-13 → 2003-04-01
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“As a result, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for a period of twelve months from the date of signing the financial statements. Therefore, they continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the annual financial statements.”
Group structure
- SYMRISE LIMITED · parent
- THG Trading Limited 49%
Significant events
- “In March 2023, various antitrust authorities (including the EU Commission, the Swiss competition authority ("COMCO"), the US Department of Justice ("DOJ"), the Chinese State Administration for Market Regulation ("SAMR") and the UK Competition and Markets Authority ("CMA")) began preliminary investigations into suspected antitrust violations against Symrise and its three largest competitors.”
- “The CMA closed its investigations against Symrise in May 2025. The DOJ closed its investigations against Symrise in February 2026. The COMCO has informed us in writing in December 2025 that it is going to close its investigations against Symrise as well.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 27 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PICKUP, Liam Craig | Director | 2025-03-01 | Aug 1972 | British |
| REGNIER, Lilian Christian | Director | 2024-10-14 | Nov 1968 | French |
| SATTLER, Markus | Director | 2004-02-09 | Nov 1967 | German |
Show 27 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAY, Adrian Mckenzie | Secretary | 2005-09-23 | 2007-04-17 |
| FAIRHEAD, Ronald Victor | Secretary | 2007-04-18 | 2018-02-22 |
| NEWSON, Martin David | Secretary | — | 2002-10-01 |
| PARSONS, Robert John | Secretary | 2018-02-22 | 2018-05-16 |
| PATEL, Prashant Amrit | Secretary | 2002-10-01 | 2005-09-23 |
| ABERG, Lennart Thorsten | Director | 1992-08-11 | 2002-10-01 |
| BARZ, Karl Heinz | Director | 2003-10-29 | 2004-02-09 |
| BENNWITZ, Dirk | Director | 2021-04-01 | 2021-12-31 |
| COURTH, Lambert | Director | 1997-01-28 | 2002-10-01 |
| GERBERDING, Horst Otto Friedfrich Wilhelm | Director | 2002-10-01 | 2003-10-29 |
| GRAHAM, Paul | Director | 2006-08-01 | 2008-09-24 |
| GRAVE, Stephen John | Director | 1996-02-20 | 2006-07-31 |
| GRIMM, Rainer Klaus | Director | 2004-10-26 | 2007-12-20 |
| HARTMANN, Hans | Director | — | 1996-12-31 |
| HIRSCH, Bernd | Director | 2009-12-01 | 2015-12-31 |
| HOEVING, Frank | Director | 2019-09-01 | 2024-09-12 |
| JUNIOR, Walter Ribeiro | Director | 2023-07-12 | 2025-03-01 |
| LICHTER, Alexander | Director | 2022-01-01 | 2023-07-11 |
| ROSSBACH, Knut | Director | — | 1996-06-25 |
| RUSSELL, Nicholas | Director | 2016-07-18 | 2019-08-31 |
| SCHAPER, Heinrich Friedrich Ludwig | Director | 2016-01-01 | 2021-03-31 |
| SEARS-BLACK, Roderick Clive | Director | 2008-09-26 | 2016-07-18 |
| SKOPALIK, Claus, Dr | Director | — | 1993-06-15 |
| WEBB, John Victor | Director | — | 1992-08-11 |
| WINTER, Richard | Director | 2002-10-01 | 2002-12-09 |
| WOLF, Martin, Doctor | Director | 2002-10-01 | 2004-10-26 |
| YATES, Dominique Robert De Lisle | Director | 2008-05-09 | 2009-11-30 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 169 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-07-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-09-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-08-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-03-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-03-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-10-29 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-09-12 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-08-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-08-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-09-01 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-07-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-07-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-07-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-07-13 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-09-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-07-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-01-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-01-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-08-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- 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.