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SENSIENT HOLDINGS UK

#01322325 · Active · Incorporated 1977-07-20 (49y 2m) · Last filing 2026-08-21 (1mo ago)
Consumer Staples · SIC 10390 · C Manufacturing · Full accounts
Confirmation due 2026-10-05 (in 22 days) · No watchouts on the register

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Cash

—

Latest balance sheet

Net assets

£28m

+2.3% highest in 3 filed years

Employees

0

Average over period

Profit before tax

£840k

+834.7% vs 2024

Accounts

3-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2025-12-31

Metric Trend 2023-12-312024-12-312025-12-31 Δ vs prior
Turnover ——— —
Operating profit -£2,213,232-£338,720£718,122 +312%
Profit before tax —-£114,360£840,184 +834.7%
Net profit -£34,938-£34,938£630,118 +1,903.5%
Cash ——— —
Total assets less current liabilities —£31,894,757£36,560,913 +14.6%
Net assets £27,585,267£27,550,329£28,180,447 +2.3%
Equity £27,585,267£27,550,329£28,180,447 +2.3%
Average employees —00 —
Wages ——— —
Directors' remuneration —£0£0 —
Highest paid director —£0£0 —

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 2023-12-312024-12-312025-12-31
Return on capital employed —-1.1%2.0%
Gearing (liabilities / total assets) —24.7%31.7%
Current ratio —2.85x3.85x
Interest cover -7.09x-0.74x1.46x

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 3 times since incorporation

  1. SENSIENT HOLDINGS UK 2005-12-21 → present
  2. SENSIENT TECHNOLOGIES (UK) LIMITED 2001-05-17 → 2005-12-21
  3. UNIVERSAL FOODS (UK) LIMITED 1991-08-09 → 2001-05-17
  4. UNIVERSAL FLAVORS (U.K.) LIMITED 1977-07-20 → 1991-08-09

Audit & accounting basis

Accounting basis
FRS 102
Reporting scope
Standalone (parent only)
Auditor
Ernst & Young LLP
Audit opinion
Unqualified (clean)
Going concern
Affirmed

“The directors have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue as a going concern for a period of 12 months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue. Accordingly, the directors have prepared the financial statements on a going concern basis.”

Group structure

  1. SENSIENT HOLDINGS UK · parent
    1. Sensient Flavors Limited · Great Britain · Manufacture and sale of flavouring ingredients for the food industry
    2. Sensient Flavors UK Limited · Great Britain · Manufacture and sale of colours
    3. Sensient Technologies Limited · Great Britain · Holds loan notes
    4. Sensient Flavors Belgium N.V. · Belgium · Manufacture and sale of flavouring ingredients for the food industry
    5. Pointing Holdings Limited · Great Britain · Holding company
    6. Pointing International Limited · Great Britain · Intermediate holding company
    7. Pointing Color Inc · USA · Intermediate holding company
    8. Sensient Technologies South Africa Pty Ltd · South Africa · Manufacture and sale of colours

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

People

2 active · 16 resigned

Name Role Appointed Born Nationality
HENSGEN, Patrick Director 2022-05-23 May 1986 American
WATSON, Leroy Clark Director 2011-10-01 May 1973 British
Show 16 resigned officers
Name Role Appointed Resigned
GRAVITAS COMPANY SECRETARIAL SERVICES LIMITED Corporate Secretary — 2014-06-25
BOND, Peter Thomson Director 2001-05-25 2001-08-03
CONNERS, Bradley Michael Director 2011-10-01 2020-03-09
CUNDIFF, Susan Kay Director 1993-04-14 1994-05-11
ELGAR, John Norton Director — 2001-05-25
FOELL, Darrell William Director 1993-04-14 1998-09-29
HAMMOND, John Lester Director 1999-04-16 1999-04-21
HIBNER, Geoffrey John Director — 1993-04-14
HOBBS, Richard Floyd Director 1999-04-16 1999-04-21
LAWLOR, Christopher L Director 2001-08-28 2005-04-08
MAKAL, Jeffrey Thomas Director 2005-04-08 2011-10-01
O'REILLY, Terrence Michael Director — 1993-04-14
OSBORN, Guy Asa Director — 1993-04-14
PLAUTZ, David Jon Director 2020-03-09 2022-05-23
RAYMONDS, Stephen Charles Director 1993-04-14 1998-04-06
ROLFS, Stephen John Director 1998-04-06 2011-10-01

Ownership

Persons with significant control

Name Kind Nature of control Notified Status
Sensient Technologies Corporation Corporate entity Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors 2016-04-06 Active

Filing timeline

Last 20 of 220 total filings

Date Type Category Description
2026-08-21 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2025-12-01 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2025-10-09 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2025-01-06 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2024-10-24 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2023-12-13 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2023-10-03 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2023-09-22 AP01 officers Appoint person director company with name date PDF
2023-09-22 TM01 officers Termination director company with name termination date PDF
2023-01-06 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2022-11-03 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2021-11-25 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2021-10-14 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2021-01-10 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2020-11-03 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2020-03-18 TM01 officers Termination director company with name termination date PDF
2020-03-18 AP01 officers Appoint person director company with name date PDF
2020-01-14 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full
2019-09-25 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF
2019-01-07 AA accounts Accounts with accounts type full

Public-record activity

Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months

Filings
3

last 12 months

Capital events
0

last 24 months

Officers appointed
0

last 12 months

Officers resigned
0

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

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