BESPAK HC LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-05-16
Overdue
Watchouts
Cash
£429K
-28.9% vs 2023
Net assets
£90M
+79.2% vs 2023
Employees
334
-27.4% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£32M
+93.5% vs 2023
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Confirmation statement overdue
Due 2026-05-16.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Health Care median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £86,348,000 | £99,578,000 | |
| Operating profit | £16,879,000 | £30,948,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £16,309,000 | £31,560,000 | |
| Net profit | £12,008,000 | £22,923,000 | |
| Cash | £603,000 | £429,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £55,063,000 | £102,258,000 | |
| Net assets | £50,468,000 | £90,442,000 | |
| Equity | £50,468,000 | £90,442,000 | |
| Average employees | 460 | 334 | |
| Wages | £26,153,000 | £22,920,000 | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | — |
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
+15.3%
£86,348,000 £99,578,000
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Cash
-28.9%
£603,000 £429,000
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Net assets
+79.2%
£50,468,000 £90,442,000
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Employees
-27.4%
460 334
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Operating profit
+83.4%
£16,879,000 £30,948,000
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Profit before tax
+93.5%
£16,309,000 £31,560,000
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Wages
-12.4%
£26,153,000 £22,920,000
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 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 19.5% | 31.1% | |
| Net margin | 13.9% | 23.0% | |
| Return on capital employed | 30.7% | 30.3% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 49.5% | 36.3% | |
| Current ratio | 1.16x | 1.49x | |
| Interest cover | 20.19x | 63.55x |
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
- BESPAK HC LIMITED 2024-03-28 → present
- RECIPHARM HC LIMITED 2018-05-03 → 2024-03-28
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 101
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Ernst and Young LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Consequently, the directors are confident that the company will have sufficient funds to continue to meet its liabilities as they fall due for the period to 31 August 2026 and have therefore prepared the accounts on a going concern basis.”
Significant events
- “On 1 April 2024, Bespak Limited completed a carve-out from Recipharm, uniting the UK's Kings Lynn valve site, Holmes Chapel fill-finish site, and the US R&D laboratory, plus Resyca (Netherlands/Germany) under one CDMO umbrella focusing on inhalation delivery systems.”
- “On 28th March 2024 the Company changed its name from Recipharm HC Limited to Bespak HC Limited.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 9 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIRST, Christopher Anthony | Director | 2022-11-01 | Apr 1977 | British |
| HODKINSON, Darren | Director | 2024-04-01 | Jan 1973 | British |
| KLUG, Oren | Director | 2022-02-24 | Sep 1984 | British |
| NEEVE, Maria Louise | Director | 2024-10-07 | May 1974 | British |
Show 9 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAWSON, Andrew Robert Anthony | Director | 2023-02-01 | 2024-04-01 |
| EL-HAGE, Tarik | Director | 2025-01-20 | 2026-02-06 |
| ELDERED, Thomas Bengt | Director | 2018-05-03 | 2021-04-08 |
| HILLAIRE, Jean-Francois | Director | 2021-04-08 | 2022-11-01 |
| HIRST, Peter | Director | 2024-04-01 | 2025-04-17 |
| LODGE, Lisa | Director | 2022-05-06 | 2023-02-01 |
| QUICK, Mark Royston | Director | 2018-05-03 | 2022-02-24 |
| ROBERTS, Claire | Director | 2022-05-06 | 2023-07-31 |
| TIDMARSH, Jeremy David | Director | 2023-10-12 | 2025-02-03 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bespak Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2024-04-01 | Active |
| Recipharm Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2018-05-03 | Ceased 2024-04-01 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 51 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-03-28 CERTNM Certificate change of name company PDF
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-01-26 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-08-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-05-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-05-16 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-03-20 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-03-10 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-11-08 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-10-21 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-08-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-05-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-04-23 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-04-23 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-04-12 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2024-04-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-04-10 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-04-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-03-28 | CERTNM | change-of-name | Certificate change of name company | |
| 2023-10-17 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-08-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- 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.