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SENSIENT HOLDINGS UK

#01322325 · Active · Incorporated 1977-07-20 (48y 10m) · Last filing 2025-12-01 (5mo ago)
Consumer Staples · SIC 10390 · C Manufacturing · Full accounts

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Confirmation statement due

2026-10-05 (in 5mo)

Last made up 2025-09-21

Watchouts

None on the register

Cash

—

Latest balance sheet

Net assets

£28M

Equity attributable

Employees

—

Average over period

Profit before tax

—

Period ending 2024-12-31

Accounts

2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31

Metric Trend 2023-12-312024-12-31
Turnover ——
Operating profit -£2,213,232-£338,720
Profit before tax ——
Net profit -£1,896,672-£34,938
Cash ——
Total assets less current liabilities —£36,573,362
Net assets —£27,550,329
Equity —£27,550,329
Average employees ——
Wages ——
Directors' remuneration —£0

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

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 2023-12-312024-12-31
Return on capital employed —-0.9%
Interest cover -7.09x-0.74x

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

“Sensient Technologies Corporation (the company's ultimate parent undertaking) will provide continuing financial support for a period of 12 months from the date of approving the financial statements of the company for the year ended 31 December 2024.”

Group structure

  1. SENSIENT HOLDINGS UK · parent
    1. Sensient Flavors Limited 100% · Great Britain · Manufacture and sale of flavouring ingredients for the food industry
    2. Sensient Colors U.K. Limited 100% · Great Britain · Manufacture and sale of colours
    3. Sensient Technologies Limited 100% · Great Britain · Holds loan notes
    4. Sensient Flavors Belgium N.V. 100% · Belgium · Manufacture and sale of flavouring ingredients for the food industry
    5. Pointing Holdings Limited 100% · Great Britain · Holding company
    6. Pointing International Limited 100% · Great Britain · Intermediate holding company
    7. Pointing Color Inc 100% · USA · Intermediate holding company
    8. Sensient Technologies South Africa Pty Ltd 100% · 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 219 total filings

Date Type Category Description
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
2018-09-21 CS01 confirmation-statement Confirmation statement with no updates PDF

Public-record activity

Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months

Filings
2

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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