BESPAK LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-24 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-11-10
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£23M
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
£323M
Equity attributable
Employees
1,258
Average over period
Profit before tax
£19M
Period ending 2024-12-31
Net assets
1-year trend · vs Health Care median
Accounts
1-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £236,000,000 | |
| Operating profit | £38,700,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £19,200,000 | |
| Net profit | £11,300,000 | |
| Cash | £23,200,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £1,030,400,000 | |
| Net assets | £322,600,000 | |
| Equity | £322,600,000 | |
| Average employees | 1,258 | |
| Wages | £48,500,000 | |
| Directors' remuneration | £1,300,000 |
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
Latest filed period vs the prior one
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 16.4% | |
| Net margin | 4.8% | |
| Return on capital employed | 3.8% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 71.6% | |
| Current ratio | 1.00x | |
| Interest cover | 0.95x |
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
- IFRS
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Ernst & Young LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis which the directors consider to be appropriate for the following reasons. The directors have prepared a cash flow forecast for the period to 31 August 2026, (being the going concern review period) which indicates that, taking account of reasonably possible downsides, the group will have sufficient funds to meet its liabilities as they fall due for that period.”
Group structure
- BESPAK LIMITED · parent
- Bespak Europe Limited 100%
- Bespak HC Limited 100%
- Bespak Laboratories Inc 100%
- Bespak Ventures BV 100%
- Resyca 11 BV 51%
- Resyca BV 51%
- Resyca GmbH 51%
Significant events
- “Bespak Limited was incorporated on 2 February 2024 as a subsidiary within the Roar Holdco AB group. On 1 April 2024, in a re-organisation of the Roar Holdco AB Group, a Group of businesses were transferred under Bespak Limited ("the Group") to create a focused, integrated CDMO for inhalation drug delivery.”
- “On 31 October 2024, it was announced that the US research activities would be moved to the UK, to better serve our customers with an integrated offering effective 31 March 2025.”
- “In July 2025, the Group settled its group relief balances with other UK subsidiaries within the Roar-Holdco group, totalling £31.4 million at 31 December 2024, for cash consideration of £3.4 million, with the remaining £28.0 million waived.”
- “As at 31 December 2024, the immediate parent undertaking and controlling party of Bespak Limited is Roar BidCo AB, a company incorporated in Sweden.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
7 active · 3 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FAESSLER, Ulrich | Director | 2024-04-01 | Aug 1960 | Swiss |
| HIRST, Christopher Anthony | Director | 2024-04-22 | Apr 1977 | British |
| KLUG, Oren | Director | 2024-04-22 | Sep 1984 | British |
| NEEVE, Maria Louise | Director | 2025-01-14 | May 1974 | British |
| SCHULTZ, Kare | Director | 2024-04-01 | May 1961 | Danish |
| WHITAKER, Anne Michelle Clem | Director | 2024-05-23 | Jun 1967 | American |
| WITTKOWSKI, Matthias | Director | 2024-04-01 | Mar 1983 | German |
Show 3 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BEHAR, Greg | Director | 2024-04-01 | 2025-12-31 |
| HIRST, Christopher Anthony | Director | 2024-02-02 | 2024-04-01 |
| KLUG, Oren | Director | 2024-02-02 | 2024-04-01 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eqt Ab | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2024-02-02 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 24 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-30 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2026-04-30 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2026-02-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-11-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-08-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-07-10 | RP04SH01 | capital | Second filing capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-07-10 | RP04SH01 | capital | Second filing capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-06-24 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-03-20 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-02-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-10-02 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2024-06-13 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-04-25 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-04-25 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-04-12 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2024-04-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-04-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-04-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-04-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-04-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 8
- Capital events
- 4
- 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.