BESTWAY NATIONAL CHEMISTS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-03-31 (in 10mo)
Last filed for 2025-06-30
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-02 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-09-18
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£13M
+114.2% vs 2024
Net assets
-£21M
-285.3% vs 2024
Employees
—
Average over period
Profit before tax
-£21M
-49% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-06-30
| Metric | Trend | 2024-06-30 | 2025-06-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £728,113,000 | £736,224,000 | |
| Operating profit | -£10,305,000 | -£18,405,000 | |
| Profit before tax | -£13,930,000 | -£20,755,000 | |
| Net profit | -£8,743,000 | -£15,600,000 | |
| Cash | £6,079,000 | £13,021,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £69,132,000 | £39,846,000 | |
| Net assets | -£5,467,000 | -£21,067,000 | |
| Equity | -£5,467,000 | -£21,067,000 | |
| Average employees | — | — | |
| Wages | £142,742,000 | £146,726,000 | |
| Directors' remuneration | £852,000 | £1,000,000 |
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
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-06-30 vs 2024-06-30
-
Turnover
+1.1%
£728,113,000 £736,224,000
-
Cash
+114.2%
£6,079,000 £13,021,000
-
Net assets
-285.3%
-£5,467,000 -£21,067,000
-
Employees
—
Not reported
-
Operating profit
-78.6%
-£10,305,000 -£18,405,000
-
Profit before tax
-49%
-£13,930,000 -£20,755,000
-
Wages
+2.8%
£142,742,000 £146,726,000
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 | 2024-06-30 | 2025-06-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -1.4% | -2.5% | |
| Net margin | -1.2% | -2.1% | |
| Return on capital employed | -14.9% | -46.2% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 101.4% | 106.0% | |
| Current ratio | 0.48x | 0.51x | |
| Interest cover | -4.77x | -7.83x |
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.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 101
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Forvis Mazars LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Accordingly, the Directors, having made suitable enquiries, and based on financial performance to date and forecast, along with available financing facilities, have a reasonable expectation that the Company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. The Company therefore continues to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the annual financial statements.”
Group structure
- BESTWAY NATIONAL CHEMISTS LIMITED · parent
- Bridge Pharmacy (Newcastle Emlyn) Limited 100%
- Bestway Belfast Chemists Limited 100%
- F.A Parkinson (Chemists) Limited 100%
- Frosts Pharmacy Limited 100%
- Ideal Healthcare Limited 100%
- Keighley Health Centre Limited 100%
- L&P 244 Limited 100%
- N-Pharma Limited 100%
- P.H.C Pharmacy Limited 100%
- Parkinson (Paisley) Limited 100%
- Penrith Health Centre (PD) Consortium Limited 100%
- Pharma-Z Limited 100%
- R.D. & M.R. Parry (Chemists) Limited 100%
- RLJ Consultancy Limited 100%
- Victoria Pharmacy Limited 100%
- John Bell & Croyden Limited 100%
- LP North Eleven Limited 100%
Significant events
- “The Company operated 715 pharmacies at the end of the year (2024: 733). Our strategic intent is to improve the quality and scale of the network where reasonable value exists. In FY25 we have continued to target and complete the acquisition of new pharmacies in order to achieve this objective.”
- “The Company has initiated a programme of disposals to new and existing operators through a competitive tender process. This programme remains ongoing as the Company seeks to ensure that its retail operation best meets the needs of its customers and patients and remains competitive within the wider community pharmacy market.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 14 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FERGUSON, Thomas Richard John | Secretary | 2019-04-26 | — | — |
| KHAN, Iftkhar Ahmad | Director | 2021-06-11 | Jan 1970 | British |
| MITCHELL, Ben Richard | Director | 2025-07-01 | May 1972 | British |
| PATERAS, Gregory Vincent | Director | 2024-09-09 | Apr 1976 | British |
Show 14 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| HILTON, Caroline | Secretary | 2014-12-17 | 2018-08-10 |
| SELLERS, Caroline Jane | Secretary | 2014-09-18 | 2014-09-30 |
| BARTON, Tracy Jayne | Director | 2016-10-28 | 2019-11-22 |
| BEER, Thorsten | Director | 2024-10-23 | 2025-07-01 |
| DAVIES, Tim Michael | Director | 2014-09-18 | 2016-10-21 |
| HAMILTON, David Allen | Director | 2016-10-28 | 2018-10-25 |
| HOBBS, Sebastian | Director | 2019-09-27 | 2024-09-09 |
| JACOB, Katherine Rebecca | Director | 2021-01-29 | 2024-10-14 |
| KRIGE, Lynette Gillian | Director | 2017-12-12 | 2021-01-29 |
| LOGUE, Christian Charles | Director | 2014-09-18 | 2015-12-04 |
| MCNALLY, Janet | Director | 2014-09-18 | 2015-03-31 |
| NUTTALL, John Branson | Director | 2014-09-18 | 2019-09-27 |
| PERKINS, Janice Margaret | Director | 2014-09-18 | 2021-06-15 |
| SMITH, Anthony John | Director | 2014-09-18 | 2017-07-19 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bestway Panacea Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 72 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-10-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-07-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-07-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-03-25 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-12-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-11-13 | RP04CS01 | confirmation-statement | Second filing of confirmation statement with made up date | |
| 2024-11-13 | RP04CS01 | confirmation-statement | Second filing of confirmation statement with made up date | |
| 2024-11-13 | RP04CS01 | confirmation-statement | Second filing of confirmation statement with made up date | |
| 2024-11-06 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-10-15 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-09-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-09-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-04-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-10-27 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-03-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-02-16 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2022-09-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-06-08 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2022-04-01 | 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
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 1
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.