SAYBOLT UNITED KINGDOM LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-05-15
Overdue
Watchouts
Cash
£17K
-12.8% lowest in 3 filed years
Net assets
£2M
+14% highest in 3 filed years
Employees
20
+5.3% highest in 3 filed years
Profit before tax
£226K
-22.1% lowest in 3 filed years
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Confirmation statement overdue
Due 2026-05-15.
Net assets
3-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
3-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2022-12-31 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | £2,365,147 | £2,208,444 | |
| Operating profit | — | £292,876 | £135,572 | |
| Profit before tax | £321,958 | £290,112 | £226,030 | |
| Net profit | £292,225 | £306,390 | £230,500 | |
| Cash | £17,815 | £19,954 | £17,398 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £1,376,711 | £1,666,823 | £1,892,853 | |
| Net assets | £1,345,694 | £1,652,084 | £1,882,584 | |
| Equity | £1,345,694 | £1,652,084 | £1,882,584 | |
| Average employees | 19 | 19 | 20 | |
| Wages | — | £661,856 | £688,972 | |
| Directors' remuneration | £64,672 | £65,640 | £66,884 |
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
Year-on-year
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
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Turnover
-6.6%
£2,365,147 £2,208,444
-
Cash
-12.8%
£19,954 £17,398
lowest in 3 filed years
-
Net assets
+14%
£1,652,084 £1,882,584
highest in 3 filed years
-
Employees
+5.3%
19 20
highest in 3 filed years
-
Operating profit
-53.7%
£292,876 £135,572
-
Profit before tax
-22.1%
£290,112 £226,030
lowest in 3 filed years
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Wages
+4.1%
£661,856 £688,972
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
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2022-12-31 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | — | 12.4% | 6.1% | |
| Net margin | — | 13.0% | 10.4% | |
| Return on capital employed | — | 17.6% | 7.2% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | — | 22.5% | 20.6% | |
| Current ratio | — | 4.24x | 4.71x | |
| Interest cover | — | 3.10x | 6.09x |
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
- SAYBOLT UNITED KINGDOM LIMITED 1988-10-31 → present
- E.W. SAYBOLT & CO. (U.K.) LIMITED 1967-01-27 → 1988-10-31
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Azets Audit Services
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Consequently, the director is confident that the Company will have sufficient funds to continue to meet its liabilities as they fall due for at least twelve months from the date of approval of the financial statements and therefore have prepared the financial statements on a going concern basis.”
Significant events
- “At the date of signing these financial statements, the Company has continued to trade without interruption despite ongoing global conflicts impacting economies around the world.”
- “On 1 May 2023, the group under went a redomestication process with the aim of simplifying the group structure. The former ultimate parent company, Core Laboratories N.V., merged with Core Laboratories Luxembourg S.A (another group company). Subsequently, Core Laboratories Luxembourg S.A was redomesticated into Delaware, USA. This company then changed name to become Core Laboratories Inc. and therefore the new ultimate parent undertaking and controlling party.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 12 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TMF CORPORATE ADMINISTRATION SERVICES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2009-11-24 | — | — |
| BOKS, Peter Wilhelmus Gerardus | Director | 2012-05-01 | Jun 1959 | Dutch |
Show 12 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOYLE, Mark Steven | Secretary | 2000-10-06 | 2002-10-16 |
| INGRAM, John | Secretary | — | 2000-10-06 |
| CLIFFORD CHANCE SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2002-10-17 | 2009-11-24 |
| BLESER, David John | Director | 1999-04-01 | 2013-01-31 |
| BRETT, Charles Graham | Director | — | 2012-02-28 |
| COULING, Richard John | Director | 2013-02-01 | 2018-05-03 |
| DAVIES, David | Director | 2021-12-22 | 2025-03-31 |
| HEINSBROEK, Jan | Director | 1992-07-01 | 2012-05-01 |
| HERBAGE, George David | Director | — | 1997-07-15 |
| IVANOV, Dilyan Ivanov | Director | 2018-05-04 | 2021-09-30 |
| PLUIMERS, Frederick | Director | — | 1998-04-16 |
| TMF CORPORATE ADMINISTRATION SERVICES LIMITED | Corporate Director | 2009-11-24 | 2009-11-24 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Core Laboratories (U.K.) Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 144 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-05-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-04-24 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-09-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-05-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-10-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-08-18 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2023-08-17 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-08-17 | CH04 | officers | Change corporate secretary company with change date | |
| 2023-08-17 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2023-05-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-11-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-05-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-01-24 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-01-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2021-10-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-05-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-02-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-05-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-10-07 | 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.